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Free AI Overview Tracker
See whether Google shows an AI Overview for a keyword, which sites it cites and in what order, and whether your domain is one of them. 1,825 commercial keywords, captured October 2026. No signup.
The dataset, October 2026
Google showed an AI Overview on 93% of 1,825 commercial queries
One Google US desktop search per keyword, captured on 2026-10-02. An overview cited 7.8 distinct sources on average, and 71% of those citations pointed at pages outside that query’s organic top 10. Ranking and being cited are related, but they are not the same contest.
1,825
Keywords captured
93.3%
Showed an AI Overview
7.8
Sources per overview
71%
Citations outside the top 10
AI Overview rate by query type
Share of keywords in each group that showed one.
Most-cited domains
Share of the 1,703 overviews that cite each domain at least once.
- 1youtube.com49.9%
- 2reddit.com31.6%
- 3zapier.com11.4%
- 4quora.com11.0%
- 5linkedin.com9.6%
- 6g2.com6.6%
- 7semrush.com6.3%
- 8seranking.com6.2%
- 9dataforseo.com5.7%
- 10ahrefs.com4.7%
- 11facebook.com3.9%
- 12onelittleweb.com3.3%
- 13angi.com3.2%
- 14google.com3.1%
- 15apify.com2.9%
How the data is captured
Each keyword is one Google search from the United States, desktop, in English, with the asynchronously loaded AI Overview included. We record whether an overview appeared, every source it cited in the order Google listed them, the brands its text links to, and the organic top 10 for comparison. The library is rebuilt and re-captured monthly. Nothing runs when you search here, which is why it is free and instant.
The limit is the one every single capture has: overviews change between days, by location and by account. A monthly snapshot shows the shape of a query, not its day-to-day movement. For that, Honeyb tracks AI Overviews and AI Mode on your own keywords every day, alongside six more AI engines, and then works on the pages and sources that decide whether you get cited. Read how to track Google AI Overviews for the methods and costs, or start with a free AI visibility checker run on your brand.
Building your own reporting? The rank tracking API returns positions per keyword with SERP features and the AI Overview citation state.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI Overview tracker?
An AI Overview tracker records, for a set of Google queries, whether an AI Overview appears and which pages it cites as sources. This free version covers a fixed library of commercial keywords captured monthly. A full tracker runs your own keywords on a schedule, so you can see when your brand wins or loses a citation.
How do I check if my site is cited in Google AI Overviews?
Search a keyword above, then enter your domain under "Is your domain cited?". The check runs in your browser against the captured sources, matches subdomains (blog.example.com counts as example.com), and also tells you whether you rank in the organic top 10 for the same query. For keywords outside the library, the free trial tracks your own list every day.
How often do Google AI Overviews show up?
It depends heavily on the query type. In the October 2026 capture of 1,825 commercial US keywords, Google showed an AI Overview on 93% of them: 98% of B2B software category queries and 97% of SEO and AI search queries, against 70% of home services queries, where Google often answers with a map pack instead.
Do you need to rank on page one to be cited in an AI Overview?
No. In this dataset 71% of citations pointed at pages outside the organic top 10 for the same query, and 28% of overviews cited no top-10 page at all. The most-cited domains were youtube.com (in 50% of overviews) and reddit.com (32%). Ranking helps Google find a page, but the overview picks sources on how directly they answer the question.
Why does an AI Overview appear for me but not in this tool, or the other way round?
Overviews vary by day, location, device and signed-in state, and Google keeps testing which queries get one. This data is one United States desktop search per keyword on the capture date. Treat it as the shape of a query, not a guarantee of what any single searcher sees.
How is this different from tracking AI Mode?
AI Overviews sit on top of the classic results page; AI Mode is Google's separate conversational interface and draws on its own set of sources. They need separate tracking. Honeyb tracks both, alongside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and more, on the keywords and prompts you choose.
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