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At this stage, the obvious response is to say that the models keep getting better, but this misses the point. Are you telling me that today’s model gets this table 85% right and the next version will get it 85.5 or 91% correct? That doesn’t help me. If there are mistakes in the table, it doesn’t matter how many there are - I can’t trust it. If, on the other hand, you think that these models will go to being 100% right, that would change everything, but that would also be a binary change in the nature of these systems, not a percentage change, and we don’t know if that’s even possible.

AI Overviews appear in roughly 47% of search results now, up from 25% in mid-2024. 60% of Google searches never leave the results page. When AI Overviews appear, click-through rates drop 34.5%.

But here’s what the doom-and-gloom crowd is missing: 82.5% of marketers increased their SEO budgets in 2024. 

Google saw more than 5 trillion searches in 2024, or about 14 billion per day, giving it a 93.57% market share.

More Google searches. The number of Google searches grew 21.64% in 2024, compared to 2023, based on Datos data.

ChatGPT saw an estimated 37.5 million search-like prompts per day, giving it a 0.25% market share. That’s less than Microsoft Bing (4.10%), Yahoo (1.35%), and DuckDuckGo (0.73%). Google saw ~373 times as many searches as ChatGPT in 2024.

93% related searches. 72% sitelinks. 57% “People also ask” (PAA). 55% reviews. 50% images. 20% knowledge panel. 18% local pack . 18% video.  15% products. 7% AI Overviews. 4% featured snippet. 4% top stories. 1% carousel.