Does Google's AI Overview cite news.ycombinator.com?

Yes. Across the 4,185 queries measured in week 2026-W36, Google's AI Overview cited news.ycombinator.com on 128 of them, including 24 where the domain does not rank organically.

How well does news.ycombinator.com rank?

It appears on page one for 748 of 4,185 measured queries, at an average position of 5, with a best observed position of 1.

news.ycombinator.com — search visibility and AI Overview citations

2026-W36

Visibility

Queries ranked

748

of 4,185 measured

Average position

5

best seen: 1

Top three finishes

250

82 at position one

AI Overview citations

128

24 without ranking

Week on week

0%

vs 2026-W35

Google credits news.ycombinator.com in its own answer on 24 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

Web scraping 52

SEO tools 46

Serverless and edge 43

AI agents 42

Content and growth 42

Retrieval-augmented generation 41

Citations

Queries where Google cites it

Query	Status	Topic
search apis for beginners	Also ranking	Search APIs
SerpApi rate limits	Also ranking	Search APIs
Serpstack rate limits	Cited, not ranking	Search APIs
Tavily review	Also ranking	Search APIs
Exa best practices	Also ranking	Search APIs
how to use Scrapingdog	Also ranking	Search APIs
Scrapingdog rate limits	Cited, not ranking	Search APIs
HasData example	Cited, not ranking	Search APIs
Oxylabs SERP API review	Also ranking	Search APIs
Bing Web Search API vs Google Custom Search JSON API	Also ranking	Search APIs
Firecrawl review	Cited, not ranking	Web scraping
what is ScraperAPI	Also ranking	Web scraping
Selenium python	Also ranking	Web scraping
Smartproxy python	Also ranking	Web scraping
Firecrawl vs ScrapingBee	Also ranking	Web scraping
Oxylabs vs Smartproxy	Also ranking	Web scraping
CrewAI rate limits	Also ranking	AI agents
Semantic Kernel best practices	Cited, not ranking	AI agents
what is AgentGPT	Also ranking	AI agents
Pydantic AI review	Also ranking	AI agents
best n8n tools	Also ranking	AI agents
MCP server rate limits	Also ranking	Model Context Protocol
MCP server example	Also ranking	Model Context Protocol
is Claude Desktop MCP free	Also ranking	Model Context Protocol
Windsurf MCP api	Also ranking	Model Context Protocol
what is Windsurf MCP	Also ranking	Model Context Protocol
Claude Desktop MCP vs Cursor MCP	Cited, not ranking	Model Context Protocol
how to use Gemini API	Also ranking	LLM APIs
Cohere API documentation	Also ranking	LLM APIs
Together AI example	Cited, not ranking	LLM APIs
Azure OpenAI best practices	Also ranking	LLM APIs
vLLM example	Also ranking	LLM APIs
hybrid search python	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
semantic search example	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
HyDE rate limits	Cited, not ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
GraphRAG api	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
contextual retrieval tutorial	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
citation grounding python	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
RAG vs chunking strategy	Also ranking	Retrieval-augmented generation
vector databases for beginners	Also ranking	Vector databases

Rankings

Queries where it ranks

#	Query	Topic
1	ValueSERP documentation	Search APIs
1	You.com API rate limits	Search APIs
1	HasData rate limits	Search APIs
1	what is ScraperAPI	Web scraping
1	how to use ScraperAPI	Web scraping
1	what is Zyte	Web scraping
1	Smartproxy documentation	Web scraping
1	Firecrawl vs ScrapingBee	Web scraping
1	Apify vs Crawlee	Web scraping
1	Smartproxy vs curl_cffi	Web scraping
1	LangGraph example	AI agents
1	how to use GPT Researcher	AI agents
1	OpenAI Agents SDK not working	AI agents
1	Pydantic AI review	AI agents
1	Flowise not working	AI agents
1	Smithery not working	Model Context Protocol
1	Smithery python	Model Context Protocol
1	Claude Desktop MCP tutorial	Model Context Protocol
1	MCP Python SDK pricing	Model Context Protocol
1	Cohere API pricing	LLM APIs
1	Together AI python	LLM APIs
1	how to use OpenRouter	LLM APIs
1	retrieval-augmented generation comparison	Retrieval-augmented generation
1	what is RAG	Retrieval-augmented generation
1	semantic search example	Retrieval-augmented generation
2	Exa best practices	Search APIs
2	Oxylabs SERP API example	Search APIs
2	Bing Web Search API vs Google Custom Search JSON API	Search APIs
2	ScrapingBee example	Web scraping
2	ScrapingBee python	Web scraping
2	Crawlee example	Web scraping
2	Crawlee documentation	Web scraping
2	LangGraph review	AI agents
2	CrewAI rate limits	AI agents
2	OpenAI Agents SDK tutorial	AI agents
2	GPT Researcher vs AgentGPT	AI agents
2	MCP server rate limits	Model Context Protocol
2	is Claude Desktop MCP free	Model Context Protocol
2	Windsurf MCP example	Model Context Protocol
2	Groq documentation	LLM APIs

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%3Anews.ycombinator.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

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