Google AI Overviews cites almost nothing you'd expect from ten years of SEO

Ranking first in Google no longer means winning the AI Overview above it.

Ranking first in Google no longer means winning the AI Overview above it. We measured the overlap, and it's smaller than most teams assume.

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Marcus Webb
Writes about AI citation behavior and measurement methodology at doclight.
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