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Sitelinks

Sub-links indented under a single result.

Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us

2026-W36

Prevalence

Of all queries
43.7%
4,185 measured
Most common in
Content and growth
52.7%
Least common in
API marketplaces
36.5%
Spread
16% pts
between topics

They are given almost exclusively to the result Google is most confident about.

Topics

By topic

Intent

By search intent

IntentQueriesSitelinks
commercial1,26444.6%
informational1,99543.5%
comparison53744.5%
navigational19437.6%
support19544.1%

Intent is assigned when a query enters the corpus, so this split does not drift as results change.

Method

How this is measured

Every query in the corpus is run once a week through one endpoint, from the United States, in English, with autocorrect on. A block counts as present when the response contains it — Google omits the key entirely when it renders nothing, so presence is unambiguous rather than inferred from an empty array.

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=what%20is%20retrieval%20augmented%20generation&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

Other blocks: ai overview, people also ask, related searches, knowledge graph.

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