How does the AI Overview checker work?

It runs your query against a live Google results page through a SERP provider, reads the AI Overview block if one appears, and lists the sources Google cites in it. If you give us your domain, we tell you whether it is in that citation list. Nothing is estimated: no AI Overview in the live result means we report none appeared.

How do I get my site cited in AI Overviews?

Pages that answer the query directly near the top, are crawlable by Google, and carry corroborating structure (clear headings, facts, schema) are the ones AI Overviews cite. Ranking in ordinary results helps but is not sufficient — AI Overviews frequently cite pages outside the top organic positions.

Is your site in Google's AI Overview?

Q: Does this check ChatGPT and Perplexity too?

This tool checks Google's AI Overview only. Our page check covers readiness for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and the full product measures your brand's presence across all of those engines on a schedule, with confidence intervals.

The AI Overview checker is a free tool that shows the AI Overview Google really returns for any search, the sources it cites, and whether your site is one of them. Type a query and it runs the search live — no signup, no card.

3 free checks per hour · results cached 24 hours per query · fetched live from Google.

Example · “best crm for small business” · measured 5 Aug 2026

Google wrote an answer and cited 11 sources. Two of the eleven were the vendors themselves; the rest were review sites, Reddit and YouTube.

salesforce.com · zoho.com · fitsmallbusiness.com · reddit.com · youtube.com · zendesk.com · businessnewsdaily.com · and 4 more

One query, once, is a snapshot. Your buyers ask hundreds of ways.

The same question phrased five ways can produce five different AI Overviews — and the answer changes week to week. Sign up free to track a whole suite of the prompts your buyers actually use, across AI Overviews and ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, with alerts when you enter or drop out of an answer.

How this check works, exactly. Every check reports three things:

The Overview itself — the answer block Google actually returned for your query, not a reconstruction.
The sources it cited — extracted verbatim from that block, in the order Google listed them.
Whether your domain is among them — plain matching against that list, never an inferred citation.

We run your query on a live Google results page via a SERP provider and read the AI Overview block Google actually returned — the same answer a searcher sees, from which we extract the cited sources verbatim. AI Overviews vary by time, location and personalization, so a result is a sample, not a guarantee: if Google showed no AI Overview in our sample, we say so rather than guessing. Checking your domain is plain matching against the citation list — we never infer a citation that isn't there.

Common questions

Why does no AI Overview appear for my query?

Google shows AI Overviews for a minority of searches — mostly informational, question-shaped ones. Navigational and many commercial queries don't trigger one, and the same query can trigger one today and not tomorrow. A missing AI Overview is a finding about the query, not an error in the check.

How do I get cited in AI Overviews?

Pages that answer the query directly near the top, are crawlable, and carry corroborating structure (clear headings, verifiable facts, schema) are the ones that get cited. Ranking helps but isn't sufficient — AI Overviews regularly cite pages from outside the top organic results. Our AI Overviews guide covers what moves the needle, and the page check grades any URL against those criteria.

Does this check ChatGPT and Perplexity too?

This tool is Google AI Overviews only. The page check audits readiness for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity — and the full product measures your brand across all of them on a schedule, with confidence intervals and a published methodology.