Data visualization showing AI Overviews commercial query surge from 9% to 43%

AI Overviews Now Target Your Money Queries: Commercial AIOs Surged from 9% to 43%

AI Overviews used to be a curiosity for informational queries. Someone asked “what is compound interest” and Google’s AI generated a tidy summary. Annoying for publishers, sure, but not threatening to revenue. That changed. Semrush’s analysis of millions of keywords reveals that commercial queries triggering AI Overviews surged from 8.7% to 42.9% between January and November 2025. Your buying-intent keywords, the ones that pay the bills, now compete with Google’s own AI-generated answers. ...

May 11, 2026 · 9 min · Searchless.ai