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  "id": "cloudflare-google-nearly-90-percent-search-referrals-2025",
  "slug": "cloudflare-google-nearly-90-percent-search-referrals-2025",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/cloudflare-google-nearly-90-percent-search-referrals-2025/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/cloudflare-google-nearly-90-percent-search-referrals-2025.json",
  "claim": "Google sent nearly 90% of search-engine referral traffic to Cloudflare-served sites in 2025",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Google has ~90% of search\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Cloudflare Radar",
    "title": "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "Globally, Google referred the most traffic to sites protected and delivered by Cloudflare, with a nearly 90% share in 2025.",
  "method": "Traffic observed across Cloudflare's global network (share of requests to sites Cloudflare serves, not of all internet users).",
  "drift": [
    "Referral share of search-engine traffic, not query share",
    "Google's share drops to about 80% on desktop"
  ],
  "interest": "Cloudflare sells network and security services.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Cloudflare measured that Google referred nearly 90% of search-engine traffic to the sites it serves in 2025 (about 80% on desktop).",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/radar-2025-year-in-review/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "2025 (year to date, through early December)",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-17",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-17",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}