Q1 2026 Search Report
New research: How 177 brands show up in AI vs. traditional search.
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New research: How 177 brands show up in AI vs. traditional search.
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Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode don’t surface sources the same way, and that matters for how your brand shows up in search.
How different are they?
Different enough that treating them as a single channel could mean missing critical gaps in your visibility strategy.
To understand how each works, we analyzed 1,540 real-world queries to map how they cite and display domains.
We asked:
Your GA4 reports probably show almost no traffic from AI search platforms, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. Google's native AI Assistant channel catches part of it, but building a custom segment will help you build a more complete...
The buyers who arrive at your site from AI are further along in their decision than almost any other traffic source. Getting in front of them takes a different kind of work than ranking in traditional search, and that work...
In this debut episode of The Search Signal, Michael Transon cuts through the acronym soup to show what the data actually says, where this confusion is coming from, and what it means for how you should be allocating your search...
Expand your visibility with a data-driven strategy.
