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Google users are less likely to click on links when an ai summary appears in the results

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A page on pewresearch.org, which corpus.blog does not hold as a blog, is cited by 59 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 9 October 2026).

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59blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time5972
Last 90 days2326
Last 30 days1011
Last 7 days22
Figures for this page
First cited31 May 2024
Latest citation8 Oct 2026
Anchor phrases5
Called by its title5 of 59 blogs
New citing blogs a weeksince May 2024
New citing blogs a week, since May 2024: 124 weeks, peak 4 a week, latest week 1

1 this week (still settling) · peak 4

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Shape: evergreen. Half of its 59 citing blogs had cited it after 668 days; 97% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 59 blogs across 5 subjects: technology 36, business and economics 4, design and making 4, society and politics 2, life 1, unclassified 12.

How it is described

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • pew research6 blogs
  • google users are less likely to click on links when an ai summary appears in the results5 blogs
  • pew research found3 blogs
  • pew research center analysis2 blogs
  • pewresearch2 blogs

Cited by 59 blogs in 72 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
5 Signs Your Financial Content Program Has a Credibility Problem

linked as “about one in five Google searches now returns an AI summary”

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3 Jun 2026
Zero-Click Readership: Are AI Overviews Changing the Way We Discover Research

linked as “As they type a search query, do they really click, or are they satisfied with the comprehensive and…”

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6 May 2026
How To Show Up in Google’s AI Overviews

linked as “Pew Research Center’s analysis of 68,879 Google searches”

Read at the source (opens in a new tab)
28 Apr 2026
Search is changing - is your website keeping up?

linked as “Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results”

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30 Mar 2026
1 other post
Web Users Don't Follow Links Anymore

linked as “Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results”

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27 Jul 2025
Search kind of sucks now

linked as “Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results”

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15 Nov 2025
Search kind of sucks now

linked as “Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results”

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15 Nov 2025
27 Aug 2025
How AI Is Changing Search Behaviors

linked as “A recent quantitative study by Pew Research”

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15 Aug 2025

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