{"slug": "pew-60-of-americans-read-ai-summaries-in-search-results", "title": "Pew: 60% of Americans read AI summaries in search results", "summary": "A new Pew Research Center report found that 60% of U.S. adults have read AI-generated summaries in search results, and 40% use chatbots for information lookup, making it the most common chatbot activity. ChatGPT usage rose to 44% of adults, up from 34% in 2024, as AI reshapes how Americans find information online.", "body_md": "[SEO](https://searchengineland.com/library/seo) »\n\n# Pew: 60% of Americans read AI summaries in search results\n\n## 40% of U.S. adults use chatbots for search, making information lookup their most common AI chatbot activity, according to Pew Research.\n\nAI is changing how Americans search for information. A new Pew Research Center report found that 60% read AI-generated summaries at the top of search results, and about 40% use chatbots to find information.\n\nAI-generated answers now appear across both traditional search results and dedicated chatbot platforms, including tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot, Pew found.\n\n**AI summaries reach most searchers. **Six in 10 U.S. adults said they’ve read AI summaries at the top of search results, Pew found. Three in 10 said they haven’t.\n\n- Another 10% were unsure, suggesting some users don’t clearly recognize AI summaries in search results.\n- Men were slightly more likely than women to report reading them, 63% versus 57%. Adults 65 and older were the least likely age group to read them.\n\n**Chatbots are search tools. **About half of U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, up from about one-third in 2024. Roughly one in four adults use them daily.\n\n- Searching for information was the most common chatbot use Pew measured. About 40% of U.S. adults use chatbots for search, ahead of entertainment, image and video creation, medical advice, fitness information, news, emotional support, and companionship.\n- Work was close behind. Among employed adults, 38% said they use chatbots for job-related tasks.\n\n**ChatGPT dominates. **ChatGPT remains the most widely used chatbot by a wide margin. Pew found that 44% of U.S. adults now use ChatGPT, up from 34% last year and more than double the share measured in 2023.\n\n- Gemini ranked second, with about a quarter of adults using it. Copilot and Meta AI followed.\n- Grok, Claude, and Character.ai had much smaller reach. About one in 10 adults or fewer said they had used each tool.\n\n**Why we care. **People now find information through traditional results, AI summaries, and chatbot answers. A traditional search ranking may not reflect every place people now find answers.\n\n*Dig deeper. AI search adoption rises as consumer trust declines: Study*\n\n**About the data. **Pew Research Center surveyed 5,119 U.S. adults from Feb. 17-23, 2026, through its nationally representative American Trends Panel. The full-sample margin of error was plus or minus 1.6 percentage points.\n\n**The report.** [Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-smart-devices-and-views-on-impact/)\n\n*Search Engine Land is owned by Semrush. We remain committed to providing high-quality coverage of marketing topics. Unless otherwise noted, this page’s content was written by either an employee or a paid contractor of Semrush Inc.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pew-60-of-americans-read-ai-summaries-in-search-results", "canonical_source": "https://searchengineland.com/americans-read-ai-summaries-search-results-pew-480592", "published_at": "2026-06-18 16:33:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 20:10:10.558775+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Pew Research Center", "ChatGPT", "Gemini", "Copilot", "Meta AI", "Grok", "Claude", "Character.ai"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pew-60-of-americans-read-ai-summaries-in-search-results", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pew-60-of-americans-read-ai-summaries-in-search-results.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pew-60-of-americans-read-ai-summaries-in-search-results.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pew-60-of-americans-read-ai-summaries-in-search-results.jsonld"}}