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US Google desktop searches per user fell ~20% YoY per Datos/SparkToro. Global search usage declined ~3% per DataReportal. Google itself claims all-time-high query volume. Zero-click hit 68%. The 15% headline is a synthesis of a much messier picture. Here's what the real data says and what to do about it in H2 2026.
ChatGPT is #5 globally at 5.6B monthly visits, +24% YoY. Gemini gained 209% YoY. Wikipedia fell 7.25%, WhatsApp 5.58%, Bing 2.93%, CNN 21.95% in a single month. The Similarweb June 2026 Top 10 makes the AI-era traffic redistribution measurable for the first time. Here's what it means for SaaS.
AI Mode at 1B users. AI Overviews at 2.5B, 2B+ MAU per Q1 earnings. Gemini 3.5 Flash is now the default AI Mode model globally. Top-10 organic share of AIO citations collapsed from 76% to 38% in nine months. Here's what's actually changing in the Google SERP in July 2026 and what to do about it.
ChatGPT doesn't even read your GBP. A field-by-field guide to the Google Business Profile signals that move AI citations, and the ones that quietly don't.
Rankings held but traffic fell? That is an AI Overviews hit. What recovery can mean now, the three plays that restore visibility, and the SEO reflexes to skip.
We correlated backlink metrics with AI citations across 20 sites for 90 days. The data on whether links or mentions get you cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity.
The May 2026 core update wrapped June 2. Sixty days of data later: the intent reset, the missing recoveries, and the AI Overviews subplot.
Google Search Console finally reports AI search data. What the Generative AI performance report shows, what it hides, and how to read every field correctly.
How local businesses get mentioned in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews in 2026, from Business Profile to reviews and entity consistency.
For nine straight months after Google's Helpful Content Update, trackers watching hundreds of hit sites logged zero recoveries. Here's the full 33-month ledger since, the one weird exception, and the doorway Google doesn't control.
Gemini 3 now runs AI Overviews for 2.5 billion users, and top-10 rankings' citation share fell from 76% to 38%. What shipped, and what to do this week.
Google AI Mode just crossed 1 billion users and the UK forced its first publisher opt-out. Here's what changed for SaaS visibility and what to do this week.
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