What share of Google searches show an AI Overview?

Google does not serve an AI Overview on every search. This report tracks the live share of tracked queries that triggered an AI Overview over a 7-day rolling window, updated daily from the LLM Pulse dataset.

Why does Google hide the AI Overview on some queries?

Google suppresses AI Overviews on queries where it has low confidence, on many transactional and local searches, and on sensitive topics. Coverage shifts week to week as Google tunes its triggering.

How is AI Overview coverage measured here?

LLM Pulse runs thousands of real queries against Google AI Overviews every week and records whether an AI Overview appeared, then publishes the 7-day rolling coverage rate.

Google AI Overviews

What share of Google queries get an AI Overview?

Live tracker of how often Google actually serves an AI Overview. Updated daily with the LLM Pulse dataset.

Updated Sep 11, 2026

AI Overview coverage: last 90 days

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Share of queries that triggered an AI Overview. 7-day rolling window, updated daily.

Current AI Overview coverage

Percentage of queries in the 7-day window where Google AI Overviews served a response (vs showing no AI Overview at all).

Rank	Surface	Queries that triggered an AI Overview	Value
1	Google AI Overviews		91.96%

What this report covers

Google AI Overviews are the AI-generated answer boxes that appear at the top of some Google SERPs. Google does not show them on every query. On a large share of searches there is simply no AI Overview at all, and users see the classic blue-link results.

This report tracks how often Google actually serves an AI Overview across the prompts we run every week. Built on the LLM Pulse dataset.

How we measure this

Every week LLM Pulse runs thousands of Google queries via the AI Overviews surface and captures whether the AI Overview actually appeared.
Coverage rate = (queries that returned an AI Overview) / (queries attempted). Queries where Google declined to show an AI Overview count as "no result".
7-day rolling window, rebuilt daily.

Why this matters

If you do SEO on Google, the AI Overview coverage rate tells you how much of your category is being "eaten" by the AI box, and how fast that share is growing.

When an AI Overview shows up, it pushes the classic SERP down the fold. When it doesn't, organic still wins. This metric is the leading indicator of AI disruption at the SERP level. LLM Pulse tracks AI Overview coverage for your own queries, per country, per language, per category.

AI Overview Coverage FAQ

: Google does not serve an AI Overview on every search. This report tracks the live share of tracked queries that triggered an AI Overview over a 7-day rolling window, updated daily from the LLM Pulse dataset.
: Google suppresses AI Overviews on queries where it has low confidence, on many transactional and local searches, and on sensitive topics. Coverage shifts week to week as Google tunes its triggering.
: LLM Pulse runs thousands of real queries against Google AI Overviews every week and records whether an AI Overview appeared, then publishes the 7-day rolling coverage rate.

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