How do we work on Google AI Overviews visibility?
Broadcastwell measures and fixes whether AI search engines name B2B software companies.
Run the free checkWe work on Google AI Overviews visibility as one of five engines in every offer, recorded separately from Google AI Mode: we search your agreed buyer questions, keep the Overview and every link it shows, repair the page or source behind a wrong or missing answer, and search again. When no Overview appears, we record that and leave it out of both count and base. We cannot make Google show or change one.
Updated 9 November 2026.
The five engines are ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. Google AI Overviews is the one engine in our captures whose answer can be absent: a search may return no Overview at all.
Google AI Overviews in the September Index
| Measure, September 2026 | Google AI Overviews | All five engines |
|---|---|---|
| Valid target answers | 415 of 420 attempts | 2,095 of 2,100 attempts |
| Cited entries | 3,050 | 18,893 |
| Answers with no cited entry | 10 of 415, 2.4% (1.3% to 4.4%) | 39 of 2,095, 1.9% (1.4% to 2.5%) |
| Vendor sites in cited entries | 887 of 3,050, 29.1% (27.5% to 30.7%) | 5,766 of 18,893, 30.5% (29.9% to 31.2%) |
| Review platforms in cited entries | 187 of 3,050, 6.1% (5.3% to 7.0%) | 1,706 of 18,893, 9.0% (8.6% to 9.4%) |
| Checked-vendor names | 1,352 | 8,085 |
| Vendor-question cells named in one or two of three runs | 302 of 2,752, 11.0% (9.9% to 12.2%) | 1,259 of 14,192, 8.9% (8.4% to 9.4%) |
Measured. Of 420 target attempts, 5 were excluded, all on Google AI Overviews: 4 returned no AI Overview for the query and one returned Google's message "We couldn't get valid results for this search." The 415 valid Overviews cited 3,050 entries. Video pages took 9.1% and forums 8.9%, the largest shares of either class among the five engines; vendor sites took 29.1%. Google AI Overviews produced the fewest checked-vendor names, 1,352.
Who Google AI Overviews named most by category
| Category | Valid Google AI Overviews answers | Google AI Overviews checked-vendor names | Named most by Google AI Overviews | Top three share of Google AI Overviews names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction software | 30 | 90 | Procore, Buildertrend, Contractor Foreman | 53.3% (43.1% to 63.3%) |
| CRM software | 30 | 81 | HubSpot CRM, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Pipedrive | 71.6% (61.0% to 80.3%) |
| Dealership software | 30 | 116 | CDK Global, Tekion, DealerCenter | 42.2% (33.6% to 51.3%) |
| Dental software | 29 | 133 | Dentrix, Open Dental, Curve Dental | 53.4% (44.9% to 61.6%) |
| Field service software | 30 | 84 | Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Workiz | 63.1% (52.4% to 72.6%) |
| Hotel software | 29 | 82 | Cloudbeds, Stayntouch, Mews | 51.2% (40.6% to 61.7%) |
| Insurance agency software | 30 | 108 | Applied Systems, EZLynx, Vertafore | 61.1% (51.7% to 69.8%) |
| Legal practice software | 30 | 108 | Clio, 8am MyCase, CosmoLex | 55.6% (46.2% to 64.6%) |
| Loan origination software | 30 | 97 | nCino, MeridianLink, LendingPad | 47.4% (37.8% to 57.3%) |
| Project management software | 30 | 78 | Asana, ClickUp, Jira | 59.0% (47.9% to 69.2%) |
| Property management software | 28 | 97 | Buildium, AppFolio, Yardi | 53.6% (43.7% to 63.2%) |
| Radiology software | 30 | 91 | Sectra, Intelerad, Visage Imaging | 41.8% (32.2% to 52.0%) |
| Transportation software | 30 | 85 | AscendTMS, Alvys, Oracle Transportation Management | 35.3% (26.0% to 45.9%) |
| Veterinary software | 29 | 102 | ezyVet, IDEXX (Cornerstone, Neo), DaySmart Vet | 47.1% (37.7% to 56.7%) |
Our chapter on the AI Overview trigger rate explains why a missing Overview is not a missing vendor, and the industry benchmarks pool all five engines.
Google AI Overviews in each offer
| Offer | Google AI Overviews in the work |
|---|---|
| Live question, $19 once | Three searches for an Overview on your question, part of the 15 planned answers within 24 hours of payment; a search with no Overview is reported as such |
| Answer Repair, $490 once | The Overview at Ready, with its links and date, is one of the five answers in the before record |
| Agency Deadline Audit, $490 per client report | 30 planned Overview searches inside the 150 observations, exclusions stated |
| Fix Sprint, $3,900 ($3,410 after the $490 credit) | Google AI Overviews kept apart from Google AI Mode at day 0 and day 30 |
| Care, $490 a month | Monthly Overview evidence and work on the video, forum and review pages Overviews cite for your category |
| Program, $5,500 a month | Overview rows in the separate measurement report |
See the operating framework for every clock and refund, and the service model for the workstreams.
Google changes we track
Google's page "AI features and your website", last updated 10 December 2025 and read 9 November 2026, says traffic from sites shown in AI Overviews and AI Mode is part of overall search traffic in Search Console, reported in the Performance report under the Web search type. Google's post "More ways to connect with the web from Search", dated 15 October 2026, describes clearer inline links and more source context in AI Mode and AI Overviews; it came after our capture, and our model release tracker records it as a product change.
Where Google AI Overviews work starts
Reasoned. Overviews leaned on video and forum pages more than any other engine in this record, so for a vendor left out of an Overview we read the cited videos and threads as closely as your own pages. Because an Overview may not appear, we first confirm one exists for the question before treating an absence as yours.
Sources
- Broadcastwell, The Absence Index, release 2026-09, release record, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695; target answers captured 22 and 23 September 2026, published 23 September 2026.
- Broadcastwell, Google AI Overviews rows of the answer citation bases, post-audit source classes, repeat disagreement, vendor concentration and excluded answers tables, report DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23804758. The names total sums the fourteen Google AI Overviews rows of the concentration table.
- Google Search Central, AI features and your website, last updated 10 December 2025, read 9 November 2026.
- Google, "More ways to connect with the web from Search", dated 15 October 2026, read 9 November 2026.
- Broadcastwell, Pricing and Methodology, read 9 November 2026.
Related: our Google AI answers, Google AI Mode visibility, and why each engine is read separately.