Report
Named, but not ranking
How often Google names a brand in its answer while leaving it off page one.
Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us
2026-W36
The gap
Named off page one
38.6%
of all names
Names per overview
2.1
average
Overviews naming someone
93.3%
of overviews recorded
Ranking on page one and being named in the answer above it are separate achievements. A study of 75,000 brands puts the correlation between brand mentions and AI Overview inclusion at 0.66, against 0.22 for backlinks — which makes this the number worth watching.
Widest
Queries with the widest gap
| Query | Named off page one | Names total |
|---|---|---|
| Flowise alternatives | 6 | 8 |
| Pinecone alternatives | 6 | 7 |
| Search Console alternatives | 6 | 6 |
| Jaeger alternatives | 6 | 7 |
| Express alternatives | 6 | 8 |
| best vector databases | 5 | 7 |
| Cloudflare Workers alternatives | 5 | 7 |
| what is Hono | 5 | 7 |
| Flask alternatives | 5 | 6 |
| DataForSEO alternatives | 4 | 7 |
| what is curl_cffi | 4 | 6 |
| LangChain alternatives | 4 | 5 |
| Pydantic AI alternatives | 4 | 6 |
| Dify alternatives | 4 | 5 |
| LangChain vs CrewAI | 4 | 5 |
| Dify vs Flowise | 4 | 4 |
| Dify vs Langflow | 4 | 5 |
| OpenRouter alternatives | 4 | 5 |
| vector databases comparison | 4 | 5 |
| Chroma alternatives | 4 | 4 |
| LanceDB alternatives | 4 | 6 |
| best seo tools | 4 | 5 |
| open source seo tools | 4 | 5 |
| Surfer SEO alternatives | 4 | 5 |
| Grafana alternatives | 4 | 6 |
| OpenTelemetry vs Datadog | 4 | 4 |
| PlanetScale alternatives | 4 | 6 |
| Fastify alternatives | 4 | 7 |
| tRPC alternatives | 4 | 6 |
| Hono vs Fastify | 4 | 6 |
Method
The measurement behind it
A fixed corpus of 4,170 queries, run once a week from the United States through one endpoint, stored and never re-fetched. 4,170 observations across 1 weeks so far. The method is written out in full on how we measure.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=best%20search%20apis&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'Reproduce any figure here
Free tier, no card. Same endpoint, same parameters — the corpus is the only thing you would need to supply.