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AI Mode vs brand mentions

Measured weekly since 2026-W25. 12 observations.

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

2026-W36

This week

AI Overview
Showing
in 12 of 12 weeks
Sources cited
3
1 of them not in the top 10
Organic results
9
returned on page one
Weekly churn
15%
of the top 10 changes each week
AI Overview, week by week
2026-W252026-W36
How much the top 10 moved

Google is answering this query itself, and 1 of the 3 sources it credits do not appear in the ten results below.

Citations

What the AI Overview cites

DomainStatusOrganic position
ai-overview.ioCited and ranking3
geeksforgeeks.orgCited and ranking5
github.comCited, not ranking

A domain marked Cited, not ranking is credited in Google's answer while sitting outside the ten organic results. Across the whole corpus that is true of 38.8% of citations.

Page one

Organic results

#DomainTitleIn the overviewSitelinks
1developer.mozilla.orgdeveloper: AI Mode vs brand mentionsNot cited
2stackoverflow.comAI Mode vs brand mentions in 2026Not cited3
3ai-overview.ioA practical guide to AI Mode vs brand mentionsCited
4linkedin.comlinkedin: AI Mode vs brand mentionsNot cited
5geeksforgeeks.orggeeksforgeeks: AI Mode vs brand mentionsCited
6news.ycombinator.comA practical guide to AI Mode vs brand mentionsNot cited
7llm-citations.ioLLM citations: AI Mode vs brand mentionsNot cited
8queryatlas.ioqueryatlas: AI Mode vs brand mentionsNot cited
9digitalocean.comA practical guide to AI Mode vs brand mentionsNot cited
Since 2026-W29

Position history

DomainW29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
ai-overview.io21111213
stackoverflow.com33333322
developer.mozilla.org12222131
linkedin.com45444444
news.ycombinator.com54665556
geeksforgeeks.org66556665

A dot means the domain was not on page one that week. This is the part no live SERP checker can show you: it needs someone to have been measuring before you asked.

Blocks

Features on this page

AI Overview People Also Ask Related searches Knowledge panel Sitelinks

Filled means Google rendered the block for this query this week. AI Overview, People Also Ask, Related searches, Knowledge panel, Sitelinks — each has its own prevalence across all 4,185 queries.

API

Reproduce this page

Every figure above comes from one call. This is that call — the same endpoint, the same parameters, run once a week.

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=AI%20Mode%20vs%20brand%20mentions&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

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