B
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58%
58% -- share of respondents with ai generated search summary for US search engine users (2026)
58% of respondents in a Pew Research Center survey conducted at least one search engine query that produced an AI-generated summary of results.
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58%
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Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Pew Research Center
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https://www.answermaniac.ai/blog/how-to-get-clicks-from-perplexity ↗
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US search engine users: 58% share of respondents with ai generated search summary. Source: Pew Research Center (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pew-ai-summary-search-queries-58pct
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