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GEO/AEO Benchmarks 2026: The Data on AI Search Impact Hard numbers on AI Overviews, AI Mode adoption, citation rates, E-E-A-T off-site validation, traffic decline, and what's actually working in generative search optimization. Updated May 18 2026 with Google AI Mode adoption data (75M daily users) and the E-E-A-T binary filter finding.
What 1 Billion Data Points Say About AI Search — Ahrefs' 2026 Studies, Calibrated A calibrated synthesis of 14 large-scale Ahrefs studies (1B+ data points) on AI search optimization: the two-discovery-layer split, the accelerating CTR collapse, YouTube as the top visibility correlate, schema markup's measured null effect on AI citations, 'Best X' listicle dominance, and the retrieval-vs-citation gap. Single-vendor measurement — graded by evidence tier, with the one quasi-experimental result flagged.