Topic
Generative engine optimisation
Getting cited by AI Overviews and assistants — a discipline barely two years old and measured by almost nobody.
Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us
2026-W36
The shape of this topic
Queries measured
163
every week
AI Overview coverage
54.0%
corpus average 50.8%
Organic results
8.9
average per query
Weekly churn
13%
of the top 10 changes
Google answers generative engine optimisation queries itself more often than it does across the corpus as a whole — 54 against 50.8 percent.
Citations
Who Google cites here
Rankings
Who ranks here
The gap
Cited more often than ranked
| Domain | Citations | Page-one finishes | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| en.wikipedia.org | 15 | 0 | +15 |
| docs.ai-mode.io | 15 | 0 | +15 |
| docs.ai-visibility-tracking.com | 14 | 0 | +14 |
| developer.mozilla.org | 14 | 0 | +14 |
| towardsdatascience.com | 13 | 0 | +13 |
| docs.python.org | 13 | 0 | +13 |
These domains earn a place in Google's own answer more often than they earn a place on page one. Whatever gets a source into an AI Overview, it is not only ranking.
Intent
By what the searcher wants
| Intent | Queries | AI Overview |
|---|---|---|
| commercial | 46 | 41.3% |
| informational | 85 | 64.7% |
| comparison | 22 | 54.5% |
| navigational | 5 | 0.0% |
| support | 5 | 40.0% |
Intent is assigned when the query enters the corpus, not inferred afterwards, so this split is stable from week to week.
Blocks
Result features
Index
Queries in this topic
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API
Measure a topic of your own
Pick your queries, run them on a schedule, keep what comes back. That is the whole method — the endpoint below returns the overview, its citations and the organic results together.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=best%20generative%20engine%20optimisation&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'Start measuring
Free tier, no card. Same endpoint that produced every number on this page.