AI Overviews Currently Appear for 83% of Branded Searches
Type your company name into Google. Before your website shows up, there is a good chance Google has already written its own summary of who you are, what you sell and what it costs. And it may be quoting a YouTube reviewer instead of you. Fresh research from Ahrefs shows how fast this is happening. AI Overviews, the AI-generated answers at the top of Google results, now appear on the large majority of branded searches. That changes who controls the first impression of your brand, and it changes what your marketing has to do about it. Here is what the data says, why it matters, and what I would do about it if this were my brand. AI Overviews now show up on most branded searches Ahrefs analyzed 232.8 million US desktop Google results collected from July through September 2026. That included 92.5 million results for branded keywords and 140.2 million for non-branded keywords. On September 29, 2026, AI Overviews appeared in 82.91% of US desktop results for branded keywords. That is where ...