AI Overview Checker

An AI Overview is the generated answer Google places above the regular results for some searches. It summarizes the topic in a few paragraphs and links to the pages it drew from. Those links are the citations this tool lists.

Google decides per search whether to show one. Questions, comparisons and how-to searches often get an overview. Short brand searches, product searches and local searches often do not.

An invented example. You run a cookware shop and check how to clean a cast iron pan in the United States. Google shows an overview with five sources: two cooking magazines, a manufacturer's care page, a forum thread and a video. Your care guide ranks fourth in the regular results but is not cited.

That tells you two things. Google already considers your page relevant, because it ranks. And the cited pages share something yours lacks, often a direct answer near the top, steps in a list, or a clearer heading. Open each cited page and compare.

If the overview cites you, keep the page current and check again later. Citations move as Google refreshes the answer.

1. Rank first. Google has said its AI features draw on its normal search index, so a page that does not rank for related searches is unlikely to be cited.
2. Answer the question early. Put a short, plain answer to the question in the first paragraph, then the detail.
3. Get onto the cited pages. If the overview cites review sites or lists that mention your competitors, getting onto those pages can be faster than outranking them.
4. Read the full guide. The guide to AI Overviews and AI Mode covers what Google says it uses and what you can change.

• It runs one desktop search in the country you pick, with that country's main language. Mobile results and other locations can differ.
• Google does not show the same overview to everyone, every time. A result is a snapshot of one search, not a guarantee.
• It checks AI Overviews in regular search. It does not check AI Mode, which Google runs as a separate conversation.
• Results are cached for 24 hours per search and country.

This page checks one search once. To track AI Overviews over time, the AI brand visibility feature in zaDojo checks the questions you choose on a schedule, in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Gemini. It records when your brand or a competitor is named and which pages get cited, so you can see change over time instead of a single snapshot. A scheduled check costs about €0.002 per question per engine.