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Google AI Overviews now appear for most major brands

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6 Oct
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2 Oct
AI Overviews Currently Appear for 83% of Branded Searches

That prompted us to investigate AI Overviews for branded searches on a larger scale. We found that AI Overviews now appear for 83% of branded queries, potentially reducing clicks

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21 Jul
The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Google AI Overviews (July 2026)

AI Overviews are the AI-generated summaries that now sit above traditional Google results — and their scale is staggering. Google says they reach over 2 billion monthly users

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20 Oct
Google Removes AI Overviews Labels On Some AI Overviews

Google seems to be removing the AI Overviews label from some of the search results that are AI Overviews. The desktop version is missing the AI Overview label, while the mobile

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15 Oct
Google Updates Links In AI Mode & AI Overviews Again, Won't Show Click Data

Google, for the umpteenth time, has updated how it shows links and carousel link cards in AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google always says this is to encourage searchers to click from

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25 Aug
Google Shows AI Overviews Above Stock Charts For Stock Price Queries

Google seems to be showing AI Overviews at the top of the search results page when you specifically search for stock price queries - such as for [GOOG stock] or [MSFT stock] and

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7 May
Google Improves Links Within AI Mode & AI Overviews In 5 Ways

Google announced five new ways in how it is improving linking to web pages from AI Mode and AI Overviews. Some of these we saw Google testing earlier, and I (we) were fans of

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24 Sept
Google Tests AI Overviews On Hotel On Side Panel

Google is testing moving the AI Overviews from the top of the page to the bottom-right location for hotel searches. So when you bring up a hotel knowledge panel, you may see an AI

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2 Oct
Google Ads Sitelinks Format In AI Mode

Google Ads show up a lot within AI Mode these days and with that, Google is testing various ad formats to see which formats get the highest click-through rate (unlike links in AI

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