Not yet, at least not on the evidence available. AI summaries are now a common part of search, and many people also use chatbots to find information. But seeing a summary—or trying a chatbot—is not proof that people have stopped using Google. The clearest behavioral evidence so far shows that people rarely click links inside Google’s AI summaries, while the reasons behind falling Google referrals to publishers remain uncertain.
What does “LLMs taking over Google” actually mean?
The phrase can describe two different things: AI-generated answers embedded in a search engine, such as Google AI Overviews, or standalone chatbots used to search for information. Those are different behaviors. Reading an answer on a Google results page does not mean a person chose a chatbot over Google, and reporting chatbot use does not show that traditional search has been abandoned.
It also matters what is being measured. Surveyed exposure, observed searches, clicks on summary links, and traffic sent to publishers answer different questions. None alone establishes that LLMs have replaced Google.
How many people encounter AI answers in search?
Pew Research Center’s browser-panel analysis found that 58% of 900 U.S. adults who shared browsing data had at least one Google search with an AI-generated summary during March 2025. Across the observed searches, 18% produced a summary. These figures measure exposure in that sample and month, not preference or replacement. Pew’s analysis of clicks in Google AI summaries draws on around 2.5 million visits to 1.1 million unique URLs.
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A later Pew survey, fielded February 17–23, 2026, found that 60% of U.S. adults said they had read AI summaries at the top of search results. About four-in-ten said they used chatbots for information searching. These are separate self-reported measures: one concerns summaries within search results; the other concerns using chatbots to find information. Neither establishes how often people choose one instead of Google. Pew’s 2026 survey findings report what respondents said, rather than browser-log observations.
Do people click links in Google AI summaries?
In Pew’s March 2025 browser-panel sample, users clicked a link in an AI summary on 1% of visits to pages with summaries. They ended their browsing session after 26% of those visits, compared with 16% of visits to pages with traditional results only. The observed difference is notable, but it does not show that summaries caused people to stop browsing: this was an observational analysis, not a randomized experiment, and the figures apply to the sample and period studied.
The low summary-link click rate does not by itself reveal whether people were satisfied with the summary, clicked other results, or continued their search another way. It does show why exposure and referral traffic should not be treated as interchangeable: someone can read an AI answer without clicking a source link.
Does AI use differ by country?
Yes. Reuters Institute’s 2025 survey across six countries found that weekly encounters with AI-generated search answers varied substantially. It reported 70% in Argentina, 64% in the UK, 61% in the U.S., and 29% in France. The report noted that Google had not rolled out AI Overviews in France at the time of the survey, which likely explains part of the gap. These are country-specific survey results tied to feature availability then, not a universal adoption rate. Read the Reuters Institute’s 2025 report.
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Are AI answers reducing traffic to websites?
Publishers have seen lower Google organic referrals in a large aggregate dataset, but the cause is not established. Reuters Institute reported Chartbeat data covering more than 2,500 sites: Google organic search traffic fell 33% globally and 38% in the U.S. between November 2024 and November 2025. Reuters Institute said it was unclear how much of that decline was caused by AI Overviews. The figures therefore describe a change in referrals, not proof that LLMs caused the decline or that users have stopped searching on Google. See the 2026 Digital News Report summary.
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- Supported: AI summaries appear in search and are widely encountered by U.S. adults; many also report using chatbots to find information.
- Supported for Pew’s March 2025 sample: clicks on links inside Google AI summaries were rare, and browsing sessions ended more often after visits to pages with summaries than after pages with traditional results only.
- Supported for the countries and period surveyed: exposure to AI-generated search answers varied, in part alongside the availability of Google’s AI Overviews.
- Not established: that LLMs have replaced Google, that every AI-summary view represents a switch from traditional search, or that AI features caused the full decline in publisher referrals.
For how Pew collected and scoped its browser-panel observations, see its explanation of what web-browsing data can show about AI online.
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