B
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1%
1% -- click through rate for AI Overviews link clicks (2026)
Users clicked a link inside an AI summary in 1% of visits to search result pages containing an AI summary.
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1%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Pew Research Center
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Tier C
https://healthroutedaily.co/google-says-links-will-be-more-visible-in-ai-overviews/567719/ ↗
Source Article
Google Says Links Will Be More Visible In AI Overviews
Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced on X that both AI Overviews and AI Mode are getting a redesigned link experience.
Stein said groups of links will appear in a pop-up on desktop when you hover over them. In the screenshot he shared, the pop-up includes site names, favicons, and…
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Pew Research Center
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Pew Research analysis of user behavior on pages with AI Overviews, cited in article
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AI Overviews link clicks: 1% click through rate. Source: Pew Research Center (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pew-ai-overview-link-click-rate-1pct
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