By Matt G. Southern
Publication Date: 2026-05-29 19:23:00
A new analysis from Peec AI, an AI search visibility platform, found that Google’s AI Overviews appeared in about 87% of the 500,000 prompts it studied.
The sample skews toward commercial, buying-intent queries and leaves out navigational searches. So the figure describes a specific slice of search, not Google overall.
What Peec Found
For decision-stage prompts, the kind someone uses when comparing products, the rate was 88.5%. Longer prompts triggered AI Overviews more often. Two-word queries returned an AI Overview 64.6% of the time, while prompts of 11 to 15 words peaked near 89%.
Presence varied by region. Within the EU, AI Overviews appeared in 76% of sampled searches, compared with 90.3% outside it. France was the outlier at 0%, since Google hasn’t launched AI Overviews or AI Mode there.
Why The Number Runs So High
The 87% figure runs above what broad keyword studies report. Ahrefs analyzed 146 million results and found AI Overviews on 20.5% of keywords. A randomized…
