Does Google's AI Overview cite bm25.com?

Yes. Across the 4,185 queries measured in week 2026-W36, Google's AI Overview cited bm25.com on 26 of them, including 10 where the domain does not rank organically.

How well does bm25.com rank?

It appears on page one for 63 of 4,185 measured queries, at an average position of 4.5, with a best observed position of 1.

Domain

bm25.com

How bm25.com performs across a fixed corpus of 4,185 queries, measured every week.

Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us

2026-W36

Visibility

Queries ranked

of 4,185 measured

Average position

4.5

best seen: 1

Top three finishes

5 at position one

AI Overview citations

10 without ranking

Week on week

-3%

vs 2026-W35

Google credits bm25.com in its own answer on 10 queries where the domain does not appear in the ten organic results. That gap is the whole argument for measuring citations separately from rankings.

Topics

Where it shows up

Retrieval-augmented generation 89

Citations

Queries where Google cites it

Query	Status	Topic
how does retrieval-augmented generation work	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
RAG not working	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
RAG best practices	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
RAG tutorial	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
how to use chunking strategy	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
hybrid search tutorial	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
hybrid search example	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
BM25 alternatives	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
embeddings api	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
what is embeddings	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
what is context window	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
how to use context window	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
query expansion explained	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
query expansion example	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
HyDE rate limits	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
how to use HyDE	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
GraphRAG documentation	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
is GraphRAG free	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
GraphRAG tutorial	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
GraphRAG api	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
contextual retrieval explained	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
citation grounding example	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
reranking vs embeddings	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
BM25 vs semantic search	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
context window vs semantic search	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
query expansion vs HyDE	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation

Rankings

Queries where it ranks

#	Query	Topic
1	RAG alternatives	Retrieval-augmented generation
1	hybrid search tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
1	is BM25 free	Retrieval-augmented generation
1	what is context window	Retrieval-augmented generation
1	HyDE review	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	chunking strategy api	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	reranking tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	how to use BM25	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	BM25 tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	embeddings api	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	what is embeddings	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	semantic search best practices	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	contextual retrieval best practices	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	citation grounding example	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	citation grounding best practices	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	RAG api	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	what is reranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	hybrid search example	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	best semantic search tools	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	query expansion explained	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	GraphRAG alternatives	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	GraphRAG tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	GraphRAG review	Retrieval-augmented generation
3	what is GraphRAG	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	how to use RAG	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	RAG tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	BM25 alternatives	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	BM25 api	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	how to use context window	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	context window tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	context window api	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	semantic search tutorial	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	HyDE pricing	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	is GraphRAG free	Retrieval-augmented generation
4	reranking vs embeddings	Retrieval-augmented generation
5	is RAG free	Retrieval-augmented generation
5	how to use semantic search	Retrieval-augmented generation
5	what is query expansion	Retrieval-augmented generation
5	HyDE alternatives	Retrieval-augmented generation
5	HyDE example	Retrieval-augmented generation

API

Track any domain yourself

This page is an aggregate of ordinary search calls — one per query, once a week. Nothing here needs a special endpoint or a rank-tracking contract.

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search?q=site%3Abm25.com&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

Build this for your own domain

Free tier, no card. One endpoint returns organic results, the AI Overview and its citations together, so ranking and citation come out of the same call.

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