{
  "study": "AI Overview coverage, global SaaS category vs local services",
  "publisher": "Meridian15",
  "collected": "2026-08-01",
  "engine": "Google",
  "source": "DataForSEO SERP API",
  "queries": 38,
  "findings": {
    "aiSearchTools": {
      "queries": 20,
      "market": "US",
      "aiOverview": "20/20 (100%)",
      "localPack": "0/20 (0%)"
    },
    "localServices": {
      "queries": 18,
      "markets": "US (6) + Canada (12)",
      "aiOverview": "0/18 (0%)",
      "localPack": "17/18 (94%)"
    },
    "marketControl": "US local 0/6 and Canada local 0/12 both returned zero AI Overviews, so the split follows query type rather than market.",
    "coOccurrence": "Across all 38 SERPs, AI Overview and local pack never appeared together."
  },
  "notes": "Feature presence is read mechanically from the SERP response; no manual classification is involved. One engine, one day, two categories. Snapshot, not trend.",
  "headline": "AI Overviews appeared on 20 of 20 AI search tool queries and 0 of 18 local service queries on the same day.",
  "sample_label": "38 Google results pages, two categories, US and Canada",
  "collected_label": "August 1, 2026",
  "key_findings": [
    {
      "value": "20 of 20",
      "claim": "AI search tool queries that returned an AI Overview"
    },
    {
      "value": "0 of 18",
      "claim": "Local service queries that returned an AI Overview, in both the United States and Canada"
    },
    {
      "value": "17 of 18",
      "claim": "Local service queries that returned a local pack instead"
    },
    {
      "value": "2",
      "claim": "Categories measured on one day with opposite result architectures and no overlap"
    }
  ],
  "citation": "Meridian15 (2026). AI Overviews Took Over One Category Completely and Left Another Untouched. We Measured 38 Search Results Pages. https://fifteenthmeridian.com/blog/ai-overview-split-2026",
  "reuse": "Quote any figure with a link to the study URL. Method and full result table published beside it."
}