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AI Overviews are expanding across commercial intent search
AI Overviews appeared on 71% more commercial-intent search results, expanding well beyond the informational queries where they first took hold. Finance saw the sharpest jump, up 231% in the period, followed by computers and electronics at 108% and games at 77%. Transactional queries moved in the opposite direction, with AI Overview appearance falling 5% as Google increasingly reserves them for the research phase of a purchase rather than the moment someone is ready to buy. Google Ads and AI Overviews are also showing up together roughly twice as often as a year ago, putting more paid and AI-generated real estate on the same results page.
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