How we measure Google AI Overviews
We search Google for your questions through a data provider, with your country and language settings on the main route, and read the AI Overview if there is one. Not every search gets one. Google says an Overview appears only when its systems judge it additive to classic Search, and that it often does not trigger. A search without an Overview is neither a failure nor part of the count.
Does Google AI Overviews show sources?
Yes, in our test. All 12 searches in our test of 4 November 2026 gave an Overview with sources, from 4 to 16 per Overview. That does not prove that every search gets one, and a listed source does not prove that the Overview used it in the text.
What can go wrong with Google AI Overviews
The backup route sends only the question, without your country, so a result from it may not hold for your country. On 4 November 2026 the data providers also listed lower success rates for AI Overviews than for the other five systems. We have not yet seen how the main route reports a search with no Overview. Google says AI Overviews can and will make mistakes.
If Google AI Overviews gives no answer, we retry and use a backup route. Failed answers stay out of the count, and a system with too few answers is labelled Not measured.
Which scan includes Google AI Overviews
Google AI Overviews are only in the paid scan, which asks each question five times. The free scan does not include them.
How to read the result
You see a count: named in X of Y answers. Each cell opens the full answer from Google AI Overviews, with your name marked and any sources that came with it.
What we do not promise
Nobody controls what an AI system says. We show what it says now and what you can change. Read our method