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AI Overview Checker

See if Google shows an AI Overview for your keyword, which sources it cites, and whether your domain is one of them.

Check a Keyword

Enter a search query (and optionally your domain) to check its Google AI Overview

How it works

How the AI Overview Checker works

1

Enter a keyword

Type a buyer query, like the ones your customers search before they pick a tool.

2

We query Google

We detect whether an AI Overview appears and pull its text and the sources it cites.

3

See if you are cited

Add your domain and find out whether Google's AI points to you or to someone else.

Why it matters

Why Google AI Overviews matter

Google is the strictest AI engine. In our study of 98 funded B2B SaaS companies, Google AI Overviews named just 2 of them. When an AI Overview answers a buyer question and does not cite you, Google is effectively recommending someone else before the buyer ever scrolls to the blue links.

Getting cited is not about your homepage copy. It is about authority and structure across the web, the same signals behind generative engine optimization. Start by checking where you stand, then close the gaps. A check here reads one query once; to follow your buyer questions every day, use the AI Overviews tracker. To compare the tools that do it, see our ranking of the best AI Overviews trackers, and for what earns the citation in the first place, how to rank in AI Overviews. See how GetIntel measures AI visibility for the full picture across engines.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

An AI Overview is the AI-generated answer box Google shows at the top of many search results. It summarizes an answer and links to a handful of sources. For commercial queries, being one of those cited sources puts your brand in front of buyers before they reach the classic blue links.

Enter a keyword and we query Google for that search, detect whether an AI Overview is shown, pull the overview text and the sources it cites, and, if you add your domain, tell you whether you are one of those cited sources.

Google's AI Overview cites pages it treats as authoritative and well structured for the query, and it leans heavily on third-party sources like Reddit, YouTube, and major publications. If you are not cited, you usually need more authoritative mentions and clearer, answer-shaped content. That is what generative engine optimization (GEO) addresses.

No. Google shows AI Overviews for some queries and not others, and it changes over time. Informational and commercial-research queries trigger them most often. If no AI Overview appears for your keyword today, it may still appear later.

A traditional rank tracker tells you your blue-link position. This checks the AI Overview specifically: whether one appears, what it says, and whether you are cited as a source. GetIntel tracks this automatically across many buyer keywords, plus ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini daily and Claude weekly.

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