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Google AI Overviews Tracking

Track every day, country by country, whether Google shows an AI Overview on your customers' questions and whether that overview names your brand. See the competitors it cites, the sources it relies on and the local businesses it lists.

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Key Takeaways

  • An AI Overview is the AI summary Google shows above the classic results on part of its searches. Mentionable runs your customers' questions in Google every day, from each country you track, and records whether an overview appears and whether it names your brand.
  • When Google shows no AI Overview, Mentionable marks the question as not triggered, which is a different result from not mentioned.
  • For each overview: mention or not, position, tone, competitors named and the sites cited. On local searches, the businesses Google lists with the overview are read too.
  • AI Overviews react slowly: a change on your site often takes four to eight weeks to show. Mentionable shows that delay next to each fix and keeps the history to see the effect.
  • Google AI Overviews are preselected on every offer and covered by the 7-day free trial.

You still rank third on Google for your main query. Traffic is down anyway. Above your result, Google now writes a summary that answers the question, names two competitors and links to a comparison site. Most people stop reading there.

Your rank tracker shows a stable position. It does not read the overview above it.

Mentionable reads it for you, every day.

What Mentionable measures in AI Overviews

You track the questions your customers type in Google: "best project management tool for agencies", "how to choose a home insurance", "Brand A or Brand B". Mentionable suggests them from your site, and from your Google Search Console data once it is connected.

Every day, from each country you track and in its language, Mentionable runs each question in Google and records:

  • whether an AI Overview appears at all
  • whether it names your brand, and at what position among the brands cited
  • the tone of the mention and the sentence it sits in
  • the competitors named with you or in your place
  • the sites the overview cites as sources

The dashboard turns this into a visibility rate per question and per country, with its history.

What is different about AI Overviews

They do not appear on every search. Google shows an overview on part of its queries, and the same question can get one today and none tomorrow. When Google shows nothing, Mentionable marks the result as "not triggered", so a missing overview never looks like a lost mention.

They list local businesses. On searches with local intent ("dentist in Lyon", "plumber near me"), Google can list businesses with its overview. Mentionable reads that list on every scan, with each business's rank and rating, on the local visibility page.

They react slowly. A page you fix or publish often takes four to eight weeks to show in AI Overviews, against one to three weeks for ChatGPT. Mentionable shows that delay next to each fix, so you know when the result is worth reading.

An AI Overview is also not Google AI Mode. AI Mode is a separate tab where Google answers the whole question; the overview is a summary above the classic results. The same question can cite you in one and not the other, so Mentionable tracks them separately.

From the measure to the next action

The Sources page ranks the sites cited in your overviews. Your competitors' pages tell you which content Google picks. The comparison sites, guides and media that never mention you become sources to obtain, and from the Influence offer, Mentionable runs the outreach to earn the mention.

The action plan lists the pages to create or rewrite and the fixes to make first. Connect Google Search Console and the plan shows the Google clicks and positions of the pages concerned.

Getting started

Enter your URL and keep the suggested questions. Google AI Overviews are preselected on every offer, next to ChatGPT and Gemini. The 7-day free trial runs without a card, and Presence starts at €249/month. The full guide to AI mention tracking covers the other engines too.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I track my brand in Google AI Overviews?

Add the questions your customers type in Google to Mentionable. Every day, from each country you track, Mentionable runs each question in Google, records whether an AI Overview appears, whether it names your brand, at what position, which competitors it names and which sites it cites. The dashboard keeps the history so you see the trend, not a single check.

What happens when Google shows no AI Overview?

Google shows an AI Overview on part of its searches only, and the same question can get one on Monday and none on Tuesday. When there is no overview, Mentionable marks the result as not triggered rather than not mentioned, so a missing overview does not look like a lost mention.

What is the difference between an AI Overview checker and an AI Overview tracker?

A checker runs one query once and tells you what Google showed at that moment, from where you are. A tracker such as Mentionable runs your list of questions every day, from each country you sell in, and keeps the results, so you see which questions you win or lose over time and which competitors take your place.

Which sources does Google cite in its AI Overviews?

It depends on your market. Mentionable records every site cited in the AI Overviews of your tracked questions and ranks them on its Sources page: your pages, your competitors' pages, comparison sites, media, directories. The ones that never mention you become sources to obtain in the action plan.

How long does it take for a change to show in AI Overviews?

Often four to eight weeks, longer than ChatGPT, which usually reacts in one to three weeks. Mentionable shows that delay next to each page fix so you do not conclude too early, and keeps measuring the questions concerned to show when the overview starts citing your page.

Does Mentionable track local results in AI Overviews?

Yes. On searches with local intent, Google can list businesses with its AI Overview. Mentionable reads that list on every scan: the businesses that appear, their rank and their rating, and shows it on the local visibility page.

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