\#AI Overviews — Blog — BrandGEO A Markdown version of this page is available at https://brandgeo.co/blog/tag/ai-overviews.md, optimized for AI and LLM tools. \#AI Overviews ================ 3 posts in #AI Overviews Apr 15, 2026 [AI Visibility](https://brandgeo.co/blog/category/ai-visibility) [Brand Strategy](https://brandgeo.co/blog/category/brand-strategy) [The Shift From Search to Answer: Four Years That Redefined Discovery](https://brandgeo.co/blog/shift-from-search-to-answer-discovery-redefined) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In late 2022, a buyer researching a product opened Google, scanned ten blue links, clicked two or three, and formed an opinion across several tabs. In 2026, the same buyer opens ChatGPT, types a question in a sentence, and reads one composed paragraph. The channel has not widened — it has compressed. This is the most consequential shift in discovery since the launch of Google itself, and it breaks several things marketers have treated as stable for two decades. Mar 24, 2026 [SEO](https://brandgeo.co/blog/category/seo) [Market Research](https://brandgeo.co/blog/category/market-research) [How Google's AI Overviews Changed CTR Curves — What Published Data Tells Us](https://brandgeo.co/blog/google-ai-overviews-ctr-curves-published-data) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For twenty years, the SEO click-through-rate curve was stable enough to plan against. Position one got roughly 28% of clicks. Position two got 14%. Positions three through ten declined in a predictable pattern. Content and SEO teams built campaign models on top of that curve and, broadly, the curve held. Then Google launched AI Overviews, and the curve changed shape. The published research from Ahrefs, Similarweb, and several independent SEO teams lets us look at the new curve with reasonable confidence. The new curve is not a small deviation from the old one. It is a different curve. Feb 28, 2026 [Industry Insights](https://brandgeo.co/blog/category/industry-insights) [GEO for Local Businesses: When AI Overviews Matter for Your Category](https://brandgeo.co/blog/geo-for-local-businesses-ai-overviews-categories) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not every local business needs to act on AI visibility at the same time. The shift from traditional local search toward AI-composed answers is happening at different speeds in different categories. A fine-dining restaurant in a major metro feels the shift at a different pace than a family-owned HVAC company in a suburb, and the correct response for each is different. This piece is about how to read the signals that tell you whether your category is inside the AI-answer transition yet, what changes when it is, and what a sensible, proportionate response looks like for local businesses that do not need the full-on B2B SaaS GEO playbook. 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