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Track your brand in Google AI Overviews

Google shows an AI Overview above the results for some searches and not for others. AEOmeter works as a Google AI Overview tracker: it runs your prompts as real Google searches in your Chrome, saves the overview when one appears with its source cards, and records "No AI Overview shown" when it doesn't.

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Google Search · without personalization
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Overview text saved·3 source cards as citations·Regular results not saved
Example Google results page with an AI Overview and its source cards.

How AI Overviews work

How AI Overviews answer and cite

An AI Overview is a short generated summary at the top of a Google results page, with source cards and links next to it. Google decides per search whether to show one, and that can change with the query, the day and where you search from.

Overviews tend to answer shorter, search-style queries. Source cards often point to pages that also rank in the regular results below.

The check

How AEOmeter checks Google AI Overviews

Google has no composer to type into, so this check is a search.

  1. 1

    Run the search without personalization

    A background tab opens a Google search for the exact prompt with personalization turned off, using Google's own "without personalization" option, and an English interface.

  2. 2

    Wait for the overview

    If an AI Overview appears, AEOmeter clicks "Show more" and waits for the text to stop changing.

  3. 3

    Save the overview and source cards

    The overview text is saved as Markdown and its source cards as citations. Regular search results below it are not saved.

  4. 4

    Or record "No AI Overview shown"

    If no overview appears within 20 seconds, the check ends with that result.

Its own state

"No AI Overview" is not a miss

When Google shows no overview, there was no AI answer that could have mentioned you. Counting that as a miss would drag your visibility down for reasons that have nothing to do with your brand. AEOmeter keeps it as a separate result, shows it as a dash in the Prompts view, and leaves it out of every rate.

One prompt, 12 Google searches
Example data

7

overviews shown

5

no overview

43%

visibility, 3 of 7

Counting the five no-overview searches as misses would show 25%. AEOmeter shows 43%.

Example of no-overview results excluded from visibility.

Caveats

Google-specific caveats

  • Google picks results partly by location. Searches run from your own network, and AEOmeter records the browser language, not a verified location.
  • Personalization is turned off on a best-effort basis through Google's own option.
  • A Google "unusual traffic" check pauses the run with a red "!" badge. AEOmeter never tries to solve it.
  • AEOmeter reads AI Overviews only. Google AI Mode and regular rankings are not tracked.
  • The adapter is experimental. Google changes its results layout often.

Prompts

Example prompts to track in Google AI Overviews

Write these like searches, shorter than chat prompts:

  • "best product analytics for startups"
  • "mixpanel vs posthog"
  • "product analytics free plan"
  • "how to track feature adoption in a saas app"

Reading results

What to look for in AI Overview results

  • How often an overview appears. A prompt that rarely triggers one matters less on Google than on the chat apps.
  • Source cards. Which pages Google attaches to the overview, and whether one of them is yours.
  • Mentions inside the overview. Whether the summary names you or only your competitors.

FAQ

Questions

Does AEOmeter track Google AI Mode?
No. It reads AI Overviews on the regular results page only.
Does it track my organic Google rankings?
No. Regular search results are not saved. Use an SEO rank tracker for those.
Why did a prompt show "No AI Overview"?
Google did not show an overview for that search at that time. It is recorded as its own result and excluded from your rates.
Do I need to be signed in to Google?
Searches run in your normal Chrome profile with personalization turned off. AEOmeter does not need anything beyond what a normal Google search needs.

Keep reading

Track your brand in AI Overviews.

Add your brand and a few search-style prompts. AEOmeter runs them as real Google searches from your own Chrome.

Track your first brandNeeds Chrome and your own AI accounts.