{ "question": "How often does Google show AI Overviews, and how many people use them?", "answer": "Google's AI Overviews have more than 2.5 billion monthly active users, Google said at I/O on 19 May 2026, up from over 1.5 billion in April 2025. In Pew Research Center's March 2025 browsing data from 900 US adults, 18% of Google searches showed an AI summary, rising to 60% of searches starting with who, what, when or why.", "period": "May 2026", "key_numbers": [ { "value": "2.5 billion+", "label": "AI Overviews monthly active users worldwide", "note": "Google I/O, 19 May 2026 (company-reported)", "stat": "ai-search/google-ai-overviews-monthly-users" }, { "value": "18%", "label": "US Google searches that produced an AI summary", "note": "Pew Research Center, Mar 2025", "stat": "ai-search/google-searches-with-ai-overview" }, { "value": "60%", "label": "Searches starting with who, what, when or why that produced an AI summary", "note": "Pew Research Center, Mar 2025", "stat": "ai-search/question-searches-with-ai-overview" }, { "value": "65%", "label": "US adults who at least sometimes see AI summaries in search results", "note": "Pew Research Center, 18-24 Aug 2025", "stat": "ai-search/us-adults-see-ai-summaries" }, { "value": "1 billion+", "label": "AI Mode monthly active users worldwide", "note": "Alphabet, Q2 2026 (company-reported)", "stat": "ai-search/google-ai-mode-monthly-users" } ], "tables": [ { "id": "by-query-type", "title": "Google searches that produced an AI summary, by type of search (Mar 2025)", "columns": [ "Type of search", "Searches with an AI summary" ], "rows": [ [ "Starting with who, what, when or why", "60%" ], [ "10 words or more", "53%" ], [ "Full sentence (with a noun and a verb)", "36%" ], [ "All searches", "18%" ], [ "One or two words", "8%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "show-question", "show-long", "show-sentence", "show-all", "show-short" ], "note": "Pew Research Center: browsing data of 900 US adults (Ipsos KnowledgePanel Digital), 68,879 Google searches in March 2025, re-run on 7-17 April 2025 to collect the results; 12,593 produced an AI summary. 58% of the 900 people ran at least one search with a summary in the month, and 88% of summaries cited three or more sources.", "source": "pew" }, { "id": "how-often-seen", "title": "How often US adults see AI summaries in search results (Aug 2025)", "columns": [ "Answer", "US adults" ], "rows": [ [ "At least sometimes", "65%" ], [ "Extremely often or often (part of the 65%)", "45%" ], [ "Rarely or never", "17%" ], [ "Not sure how often", "13%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "seen-sometimes", "seen-often", "seen-rarely", "seen-not-sure" ], "note": "Pew Research Center survey of 5,153 US adults, American Trends Panel, 18-24 Aug 2025. The question is about AI summaries in search results from any search engine, not Google only. Those who did not answer are not shown.", "source": "pew" }, { "id": "seen-by-group", "title": "US adults who see AI summaries extremely often or often, by group (Aug 2025)", "columns": [ "Group", "See them extremely often or often" ], "rows": [ [ "Ages 18 to 29", "62%" ], [ "Ages 65 and older", "23%" ], [ "College graduates", "57%" ], [ "Lower levels of formal education", "38%" ], [ "All US adults", "45%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "group-18-29", "group-65-plus", "group-college", "group-less-education", "group-all" ], "note": "Pew Research Center, 5,153 US adults, 18-24 Aug 2025.", "source": "pew" }, { "id": "trust-useful", "title": "Trust and usefulness, among US adults who have seen AI summaries (Aug 2025)", "columns": [ "View of the information in AI summaries", "Share" ], "rows": [ [ "At least some trust", "53%" ], [ "Trust it a lot (part of the 53%)", "6%" ], [ "Not much or no trust at all", "46%" ], [ "Extremely or very useful", "One in five" ], [ "Somewhat useful", "52%" ], [ "Not too or not at all useful", "28%" ] ], "row_ids": [ "trust-some", "trust-a-lot", "trust-little", "useful-very", "useful-somewhat", "useful-not" ], "note": "Pew Research Center, asked of US adults who have come across AI summaries in search results, 18-24 Aug 2025.", "source": "pew" }, { "id": "ai-mode-users", "title": "Google AI Mode users, as stated by Google", "columns": [ "Google statement", "AI Mode users", "Measure" ], "rows": [ [ "Q2 2025 earnings remarks (23 Jul 2025)", "Over 100 million", "Monthly active users, US and India only" ], [ "Q3 2025 earnings remarks (29 Oct 2025)", "Over 75 million", "Daily active users, after the global roll-out" ], [ "I/O keynote (19 May 2026)", "Surpassed 1 billion", "Monthly active users" ], [ "Q2 2026 earnings remarks (22 Jul 2026)", "Surpassed 1 billion", "Monthly active users" ] ], "row_ids": [ "mode-2025-07", "mode-2025-10", "mode-2026-05", "mode-2026-07" ], "note": "Company statements, not audited. AI Mode is a separate chat-style search mode; its users are not part of the AI Overviews count. Daily and monthly users are different measures.", "source": "google" }, { "id": "history", "title": "AI Overviews monthly users, as stated by Google", "columns": [ "Google statement", "AI Overviews users", "Wording" ], "rows": [ [ "Q3 2024 earnings remarks (29 Oct 2024)", "More than 1 billion (expected reach, not a count)", "will now reach more than 1 billion users on a monthly basis (after a roll-out to 100+ new countries)" ], [ "Q1 2025 earnings remarks (24 Apr 2025)", "Over 1.5 billion", "users per month" ], [ "Q2 2025 earnings remarks (23 Jul 2025)", "Over 2 billion", "monthly users across more than 200 countries and territories and 40 languages" ], [ "I/O keynote (19 May 2026)", "Over 2.5 billion", "monthly active users" ] ], "row_ids": [ "aio-2024-10", "aio-2025-04", "aio-2025-07", "aio-2026-05" ], "note": "Each date is the Google post that states the figure. The October 2024 figure was an expected reach at the time of a roll-out, not a measured count. Google does not publish its method or a country split.", "source": "google" } ], "sources": [ { "name": "Google and Alphabet official announcements (I/O keynote, earnings call remarks)", "publisher": "Google / Alphabet", "type": "vendor", "url": "https://blog.google/" }, { "name": "Pew Research Center", "publisher": "Pew Research Center", "type": "survey", "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/" } ], "content_changed_on": "2026-10-31", "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-search/ai-overviews-usage", "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/ai-search/ai-overviews-usage.csv" }