Check any search query against Google’s live results: whether an AI Overview appears, what it says, which pages it cites, and whether your site is one of them.
Enter a query to see whether Google shows an AI Overview for it right now, and which pages it cites.
Live Google results for desktop, in English, via a SERP data provider. A query checked by anyone in the last 24 hours returns that shared result. Free checks are limited per hour and per day.
Key takeaways
1Whether Google shows an AI Overview changes by query, country and day. One check is a snapshot, not a verdict.
2Studies disagree on how often AI Overviews appear, from about 15% to nearly half of queries, depending on the keyword set.
3Question-style and longer queries trigger them far more often than short or shopping queries.
4Google says there are no special requirements to be cited beyond being indexed and eligible for a snippet.
How often Google shows AI Overviews
Google publishes no figure, so every number comes from a third party tracking its own keyword set[5]. They disagree widely, and the reasons are the keyword mix, the country, the device and the month.
Share of queries showing an AI Overview, by study
Each study uses its own keyword set, so compare trends, not exact levels.
Semrush, Nov 202515.7%
Ahrefs, Sep 2025 (US desktop)20.5%
seoClarity, Sep 2025 (US desktop)30.0%
Conductor, Feb 202634.0%
Similarweb, Jul 202643.0%
no method published
Semrush, Jul 202648.0%
no method published
Share of queries showing an AI Overview, by study
Semrush, Nov 2025
15.7%
Ahrefs, Sep 2025 (US desktop)
20.5%
seoClarity, Sep 2025 (US desktop)
30.0%
Conductor, Feb 2026
34.0%
Similarweb, Jul 2026
43.0%
Semrush, Jul 2026
48.0%
Ahrefs, Semrush, seoClarity, Conductor; vendor figures via Search Engine Roundtable
AI Overview coverage swings: Conductor's keyword set
Share of Conductor's 118 million tracked keywords showing an AI Overview.
Keywords with an AI Overview
AI Overview coverage swings: Conductor's keyword set
Period
Keywords with an AI Overview
Sep 2025
23%
Jan 2026
47%
Feb 2026
34%
Conductor, updated 8 May 2026
Sources: Semrush[2], Ahrefs[1], seoClarity[4], Conductor[3], and the July 2026 vendor figures as reported[5].
Which queries trigger an AI Overview
Ahrefs’ study of 146 million US desktop results found AI Overviews on 20.5% of them overall, but on 57.9% of question queries and 46.4% of queries seven words or longer, against 9.5% of one-word queries. The shopping category had the lowest share, at 3.2%[1]. So the questions your buyers type in full sentences are the ones most likely to be answered for them.
Check a set, not one query
The checker keeps a tally of every query you run in this session. Check the ten questions that matter most to you, and the tally shows how many showed an AI Overview and in how many you were cited.
How to get cited in an AI Overview
Google says there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode: a page must be indexed and eligible to be shown in Google Search with a snippet[6]. Its newer guide to generative AI features also says a site must be included in the Search generative AI features setting in Search Console to be eligible[7], so check that setting if you have never looked at it.
Myth
You need special markup to be cited.
What is true
Google says no special structured data or files are needed.
Myth
Only the top-ranking page gets cited.
What is true
Studies find many cited pages rank below the top ten. Ranking helps; it does not decide.
Myth
No AI Overview today means none tomorrow.
What is true
Coverage for the same keyword set has swung by more than 20 points in a month.
On ranking: in Ahrefs’ early-2026 study of 863,000 keywords, 38% of pages cited in AI Overviews ranked in the top ten for the same query, and the rest came from further down or beyond position 100[8].
Search it in Google, or use the checker on this page, which fetches Google's live results for the query in the country you choose and shows whether an AI Overview appeared, what it said and which pages it cited. The result can change from one day to the next for the same query.
How often does Google show AI Overviews?+
Google does not publish a figure, and third-party studies disagree: Ahrefs found AI Overviews on 20.5% of 146 million US desktop results in September 2025, Semrush reported 15.69% in November 2025, and vendors quoted figures of about 43% to 48% in July 2026. The answer depends on the keyword set, the country and the month.
Why does an AI Overview appear one day and not the next?+
Google decides per search whether an AI Overview is helpful, and that decision changes. Conductor measured AI Overview coverage on its keyword set nearly doubling from 23% to 47% between September 2025 and January 2026, then falling to 34% a month later.
How do I get my site cited in an AI Overview?+
Google says there are no special requirements beyond being indexed and eligible to show with a snippet. In practice, pages that answer the question directly, rank reasonably for it and are crawlable get cited more often. Check which sources Google cites today, and what they do that your page does not.
Which kinds of queries show AI Overviews most?+
Longer, question-style queries. In Ahrefs' data, AI Overviews appeared on 57.9% of question queries and 46.4% of queries of seven words or more, against 9.5% of one-word queries and 3.2% in the shopping category.
Is this AI Overview checker free?+
Yes, with limits: a few new queries per hour, and a daily cap across all users, because each check is a paid request to Google's results. A query anyone checked in the last 24 hours is served from that shared result at no cost.
