The record
Traffic-intelligence vendor whose panels produce the beat's most-quoted scale figures — AI Overviews on 43% of searches, ChatGPT's 494 million users.
Similarweb's panels supply the beat's most-quoted scale figures. Its analysis put AI Overviews on 43% of Google searches in July 2026, up from 15% a year earlier, and counted AI Mode visits rising from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million in May 2026; a separate report found 95% of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google in the same March-to-May window. Its Top 100 Media index underlies the finding that publishers spent an estimated $113 million on Google paid search in July 2026, up 274% over three years, with Forbes at $72.2 million as its organic traffic fell 26.7%. On the product side Similarweb added AI Ads to its Ad Intelligence product on August 13 — creatives and landing pages running inside ChatGPT, AI Mode and AI Overviews — and is building an agentic-commerce measurement product with NIQ. Methodology detail — panel size, geography, sampling — is thin on this record.
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Publishers in Similarweb's Top 100 Media index spent an estimated $113 million on Google paid search in July 2026, up 41% year over year and 274% over…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 10 · · Google Search, SEO
NIQ and Similarweb are building an Agentic Commerce Measurement product that tracks AI-driven product discovery across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google Search Console carries a Search generative AI control under Settings that takes a site out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in…
Via Google Search Console Help ↗ · Aug 27 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
Similarweb added AI Ads to its Ad Intelligence product on August 13, giving marketers visibility into actual ad creatives and landing pages running inside…
Via Similarweb Blog ↗ · Aug 13 · · Tools & Vendors, AEO
A new Similarweb report finds 95% of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google during the same March-to-May 2026 span, per Search Engine Journal…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 30 · · Research, AEO, SEO
AI Overviews surfaced in 43% of Google searches, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a Similarweb analysis reported by TechCrunch.
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Jul 27 · · Google Search, Research, SEO
