{
 "title": "How many Google Search Console queries come from AI agents",
 "publisher": "Murkuz",
 "url": "https://murkuz.com/research/ai-agent-search-console-queries",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "window": [
  "2025-06-29",
  "2026-10-21"
 ],
 "sample": "We selected 29 sites for this analysis (small and mid-sized software, SaaS, review and content sites with Search Console data for the window), anonymized; 25 had query-level rows (70,009 query rows, 59,789 distinct queries).",
 "method": "Every distinct query of 7+ words (14,044) labelled by TypeSafe Jev; 2,000 of 45,745 shorter queries sampled at random and scaled. Classifier calibration 17 of 22 correct, all misses AI-written queries labelled human, so AI shares are lower bounds.",
 "min_group": "5 sites",
 "ai_queries_7plus_words": {
  "queries": 342,
  "impressions": 7971,
  "clicks": 50,
  "clicks_excluding_one_query": 0,
  "sites": 11,
  "median_position": 3.2
 },
 "rule_based_cross_check_machine_share_pct": 1.51,
 "rows": [
  {
   "table": "who_wrote_the_query (all queries, estimated)",
   "segment": "A person searching",
   "queries": "",
   "share_of_queries_pct": 97.51,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": 99.3,
   "share_of_clicks_pct": 99.02,
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "who_wrote_the_query (all queries, estimated)",
   "segment": "An AI agent or assistant",
   "queries": "",
   "share_of_queries_pct": 1.01,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": 0.42,
   "share_of_clicks_pct": 0.38,
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "who_wrote_the_query (all queries, estimated)",
   "segment": "Pasted text, URLs or quiz questions",
   "queries": "",
   "share_of_queries_pct": 0.66,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": 0.2,
   "share_of_clicks_pct": 0.02,
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "who_wrote_the_query (all queries, estimated)",
   "segment": "Rank trackers and scrapers",
   "queries": "",
   "share_of_queries_pct": 0.09,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": 0.01,
   "share_of_clicks_pct": 0,
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "who_wrote_the_query (all queries, estimated)",
   "segment": "Too little signal to tell",
   "queries": "",
   "share_of_queries_pct": 0.72,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": 0.08,
   "share_of_clicks_pct": 0.59,
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_share_by_query_length",
   "segment": "7 to 9 words",
   "queries": 13262,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 0.35,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_share_by_query_length",
   "segment": "10 to 14 words",
   "queries": 2745,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 6.41,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_share_by_query_length",
   "segment": "15 to 24 words",
   "queries": 361,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 8.59,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_share_by_query_length",
   "segment": "25 words or more",
   "queries": 173,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 50.87,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": ""
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_query_patterns (7+ words)",
   "segment": "Output instructions",
   "queries": 112,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 32.7,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": 6
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_query_patterns (7+ words)",
   "segment": "Task commands",
   "queries": 31,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 9.1,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": 5
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_query_patterns (7+ words)",
   "segment": "Buyer persona briefs",
   "queries": 26,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 7.6,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": 5
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_query_patterns (7+ words)",
   "segment": "Location-scoped prompts",
   "queries": 25,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 7.3,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": 6
  },
  {
   "table": "ai_query_patterns (7+ words)",
   "segment": "Other agent text",
   "queries": 148,
   "share_of_queries_pct": 43.3,
   "share_of_impressions_pct": "",
   "share_of_clicks_pct": "",
   "sites": 9
  }
 ]
}