- AI Overviews by query intent — 88.5% on bottom-of-funnel prompts; 93–97% on clear-intent query types.
- AI Overviews by country — 76% inside the EU vs 90.3% outside; France 0%.
- AI Overviews by query length — 64.6% for two-word queries up to 89.1% at 11–15 words.
How often Google AI Overviews appears — 87% of searches
Peec’s 500,000-prompt study (Apr 2026) — AI Overviews appeared in 86.7% of Google searches, up from 56.9% in Apr 2025, and reaches 2.5 billion monthly users, the largest AI search surface.
Google AI Overviews appears in roughly 87% of Google searches, based on Peec’s analysis of 500,000 prompts from April 13–20, 2026 (full study). Coverage grew from 56.9% of searches in April 2025 to 86.7% in April 2026 — a 50% increase in twelve months.
Scale context from the same study: Google confirmed at I/O 2026 that AI Overviews reaches 2.5 billion monthly users — larger than ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity combined — with AI Mode at 1 billion and Gemini at 0.9 billion, all on the same Google AI stack.
Methodology note: the dataset skews toward business-oriented prompts with buying intent (category research, comparisons, decision-stage evaluations) and excludes navigational queries like “HubSpot” or “Tesla.”
Appearance varies by dimension, each with its own page: