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query expansion best practices

Measured weekly since 2026-W25. 12 observations.

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

2026-W36

This week

AI Overview
Not showing
in 1 of 12 weeks
Sources cited
no overview to cite from
Organic results
9
returned on page one
Weekly churn
20%
of the top 10 changes each week
AI Overview, week by week
2026-W252026-W36
How much the top 10 moved

Google is not answering this query itself as of 2026-W36. The 9 results below are the whole page.

Page one

Organic results

#DomainTitleSitelinks
1g2.comQuery expansion best practices | g2 docs3
2docs.graphrag.comGraphRAG: query expansion best practices
3quora.comQuery expansion best practices in 2026
4github.comA practical guide to query expansion best practices
5rag.comQuery expansion best practices | RAG docs
6news.ycombinator.comA practical guide to query expansion best practices
7freecodecamp.orgfreecodecamp: query expansion best practices
8graphrag.comQuery expansion best practices — GraphRAG
9towardsdatascience.comtowardsdatascience: query expansion best practices
Since 2026-W29

Position history

DomainW29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36
g2.com21111211
docs.graphrag.com12232122
quora.com33323333
rag.com45444445
github.com74555564
news.ycombinator.com57666656

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=query%20expansion%20best%20practices&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'

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