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79.8%
79.8% -- traditional search reliance rate for US search users (2025)
79.8% of Americans still rely on traditional search engines.
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Value
79.8%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
anypost.ai
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Tier C
https://anypost.ai/blog/optimizing-for-ai-search-engines-e-e-a-t-structured-data-the-new-rules-of-vi… ↗
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Optimizing for AI Search Engines: E-E-A
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anypost.ai
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Referenced 2025 study, original methodology not stated
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US search users: 79.8% traditional search reliance rate. Source: anypost.ai (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/traditional-search-reliance-79-8pct
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