Article by Matt G.Southern New Ahrefs analysis shows where AI Overviews show up in Google: more often on questions and longer queries, less on time-sensitive news and local searches. Most AI Overviews show on informational, question-style, and longer queries. Very newsy and local queries are comparatively unlikely to surface an AI Overview. Medical YMYL queries show the highest exposure in the dataset. Ahrefs analyzed 146 million search results to determine which query types

Key Findings at a Glance AI Mode prefers sidebar linking: 92% of AI Mode responses featured a sidebar showing ~7 unique domains. These...