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60%
60% -- zero click rate for Traditional Google queries (2026)
Traditional search queries exhibit approximately a 60% zero-click rate.
- Reported as an approximate benchmark (~60%)
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60%
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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
Source
resollm.ai
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Tier B
https://resollm.ai/blog/2026-ai-search-trends/ ↗
Source Article
AI Search Trends - 2026 That Are Redefining Visibility
AI search is not “Google with a chatbot UI.” It’s a different discovery system with different economics.
A simple signal of the shift: organic CTR declined 15.5% on queries that trigger AI Overviews, and other tracking reports drops as high as 34.5% when AI Overviews appear. In the same environment,…
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resollm.ai
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Baseline zero-click rate for non-AI-Overview queries
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Traditional Google queries: 60% zero click rate. Source: resollm.ai (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/traditional-query-zero-click-rate
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