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18% -- share of searches with ai summary for Google Search (2026)

2026  · n=900  · Pew Research Center

Around 18% of Google searches in the Pew Research study produced an AI summary.

  • Tracking of 900 US adults across ~69,000 Google searches
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18%
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Data Vintage
2026
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Google Search
Sample Size
900
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Pew Research browsing-behavior study of ~69,000 Google searches

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Google Search: 18% share of searches with ai summary. Source: Pew Research Center (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pew-ai-summary-prevalence-18
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