Does Google's AI Overview cite you?
Enter a search and see whether Google shows an AI Overview for it, which sources it cites, and whether you are among them. One check is one observation: run it twice and the list can differ, which is the point.
What this tells you, and what it cannot
The most useful free check on this site, and the one with the shortest shelf life.
An AI Overview answers the searcher directly and names a few sources. If it appears for a search your buyers make, the ranking underneath it matters less than it used to, because a large share of those searches now end without a click on anything. Being one of the cited sources is the thing worth having.
What this check gives you is the citation list for one search, right now. What it cannot give you is a trend, a score, or a fact that will still be true this afternoon. AI Overviews change between identical searches, and any tool that reports a single reading as a standing measurement is selling you a number it cannot support.
The honest use of this page is to run it two or three times on the same search and watch what moves. That takes a minute and teaches you more about AI visibility than any dashboard will.
If you are not cited
The order these are worth doing in, which is not the order most advice gives.
- Check Google can fetch you at all
An AI Overview is built from Google's index. If Googlebot is disallowed, or the page needs JavaScript to show its text, nothing downstream matters.
- Check the page can be understood and quoted
Overviews quote passages. A page with no readable text before JavaScript runs, or no heading that matches the question, has nothing to lift.
- Check the markup says what you are
Structured data is how an engine resolves you to an entity rather than guessing from prose.
- Earn citations on the sources it already trusts
The list this tool prints is the answer to what Google trusts for that query. Those domains are the target, not your own blog.
Questions
The AI-written summary Google places above the ordinary results on some searches. It answers the question directly and cites a handful of sources, which means a search that shows one can be answered without anybody clicking a result at all. Whether you are among those cited is a different question from where you rank.
Because AI Overviews are not stable. They vary by location, by device, by signed-in history, and they change between identical searches minutes apart. That is the single most important thing to understand about this surface, and it is why a tool that reported one check as a standing fact would be lying to you. Run it twice on purpose.
No. Google chooses to summarise some searches and not others, and that choice is about the query rather than about any particular site. No Overview means there was nothing to be cited in, for anyone, on that search at that moment.
Every other free tool here is plain HTTP against a page, which costs us nothing. Google publishes no API for AI Overviews, so this one reads a paid search API at roughly a cent and a half per call. Five a day is enough to check your own search, a competitor's, and to re-run one and watch it change, which is the point of the page.
No, and it is worth being precise. This checks one surface, on one query, once. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini each decide separately, and each of them is non-deterministic too. Measuring visibility properly means asking a fixed set of buying questions repeatedly across engines and reporting the range the answer falls in.
One surface, once, is not a measurement
This checks Google. Your buyers also ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, and every one of them answers differently each time. The free check asks all five, repeatedly, and reports the confidence band the score is accurate to.