AI Search Market Share: Q1 2026 Analysis
AI-powered search tools now handle 28% of all informational queries globally, up from 12% in Q1 2025. The shift from traditional search to AI answers is accelerating faster than predicted.
Market data
- ChatGPT: 11% of informational queries (up from 4%).
- Google AI Overviews: 9% of all Google searches now show AI summaries.
- Perplexity: 4% market share, fastest growing AI search product.
- Claude, Gemini, others: combined 4% market share.
Trend analysis
- At current growth rates, AI search will handle 50%+ of informational queries by 2027.
- Company-related queries are disproportionately shifting to AI (34% AI share).
- Traditional SEO alone is no longer sufficient for company visibility.
Related signals
Other tracked signals in this area.
- AI Adoption Trends in Enterprise Search (2026) — Enterprise adoption of LLM-powered search tools accelerated in early 2026. Over 40% of Fortune 500 companies now use AI assistants that quer
- AI Visibility Signals: 2026 Archive — All AI visibility signals from 2026 — tracking changes in AI behavior, LLM updates, regulatory developments, and industry trends that affect
- Enterprise RAG Spending to Reach $12B in 2026 — Enterprise spending on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) infrastructure is projected to reach $12 billion in 2026, a 3.5x increase from 2
- LLM Accuracy Drift: Q1 2026 Observations — We tracked factual accuracy of four major LLMs answering company-specific questions over 90 days. Accuracy for companies without structured
- Voice AI Search: How Spoken Queries Change Company Discovery — Voice-based AI queries (Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant with AI) now represent 22% of company-related searches. Voice queries are longer, more
- See all in Signals
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