Google AI Overview tracker: is your brand named?
Google shows an AI Overview for some searches, not all. Nodpick asks Google your buyers' questions in their country and language, records whether the AI Overview names your brand, which sites it links and where your domain ranks in the organic results underneath. Questions without an AI Overview are left out of your score instead of counting as a miss.
- Your buyers' country and language
- Weekly, with a 95 % range
- Not a miss when Google shows no overview
What the tracker measures
AI Overviews are part of Google Search, so they behave differently from ChatGPT or Perplexity. This is exactly what is recorded for each of your questions.
Is your brand named in the overview?
For each question, whether the AI Overview names your brand and at which position, counted from first named (100) down to not named (0), with a 95 % range over all your questions.
Is your domain linked?
Google shows supporting links with the overview. Named and linked are different: an overview can link your guide and still recommend a competitor, or name you without a link. Both are recorded.
Who is named instead
Every brand the overview names for your questions and the domains it links, so you see which competitors and which third-party pages Google leans on.
Your organic rank next to it
Where your domain ranks in the top 10 organic results of the same search, so you see linked and ranked side by side.
Questions without an overview
Google shows an AI Overview only for some searches. A question without one is not a failure and not a zero: it is left out of that week's AI Overviews score, and the report shows for how many of your questions Google showed one.
AI Mode as its own engine
Google AI Mode is a separate experience that users open themselves, so it is measured as its own engine. Both Google engines come with every paid plan, next to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude.
What a result looks like
best accounting software for freelancers in Germany
- AI Overview shown
- Yes
- Your brand named
- No. Three other tools named
- Your domain linked
- Yes, your pricing guide is one of five links
- Organic rank
- Position 4 for your domain
Linked but not named is a common result: Google used your page, but the text recommends others. The fix is on the page that describes you, not on a new page.
Who it is for
SEO and content teams
You already track rankings. Add the one result rankings do not show: whether Google's summary names you above the results.
How to track AI visibilityAgencies
Report AI Overview visibility per client next to organic rank. 15 brands on one plan, 26.60 € per brand per month.
AI visibility for agenciesLocal and e-commerce brands
Local and shopping searches are where buyers compare options. Track your city or niche questions in the right country and language.
AI visibility for e-commerceWhat it costs
AI Overviews and AI Mode are measured in every paid plan, together with ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. The plan sets how many brands, questions and competitors you track. Net prices for businesses, plus VAT. Yearly billing is 10 times the monthly price.
Starter
49 € / month
- 1 brand
- 25 questions in total
- 5 competitors per brand
- 1 Fix-Check
- Unlimited team seats
Growth
129 € / month
- 3 brands
- 70 questions in total
- 10 competitors per brand
- 3 Fix-Checks
- Unlimited team seats
Agency
399 € / month
- 15 brands
- 220 questions in total
- 15 competitors per brand
- 10 Fix-Checks
- Unlimited team seats
The free check does not include Google AI Overviews. On paid plans you can also import your Search Console AI impressions next to the score. Full pricing
What it does not do
- It measures whether Google's AI Overview names you and links you. It does not measure clicks or traffic from AI Overviews: Google reports that inside the normal Web search numbers in Search Console, not as a separate figure.
- It reads Google as a logged-out searcher in your chosen country and language. Personalized results can differ.
- It checks the questions you track, once a week. It does not watch every search on your keyword list.
- No tracker can make Google show an AI Overview or name you in one. See how to appear in Google AI Overviews for what Google documents.
We ran it on ourselves
On 1 November 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude the kind of question a buyer asks, such as "best tools to track my brand in ChatGPT", in English and German. We ran the same method on our own brand, which is two weeks old.
category answers named Nodpick
category answers named an established vendor instead
brand-name answers described Nodpick correctly
The category answers leaned on third-party "best tools" lists. Asked by name ("What is Nodpick?"), ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini answered correctly from our own site. Known, but not recommended: that gap is what Nodpick measures, and it is the number you should track for your own brand.
Questions about tracking AI Overviews
How do I track Google AI Overviews?
Pick the questions your buyers ask, run them in Google in the right country and language, and record whether the overview names your brand, which links it shows and where you rank below it. Doing that by hand does not scale or repeat; Nodpick does it weekly for the questions you choose and shows the trend with a range.
Can I see AI Overview traffic in Search Console?
Google says traffic from its AI features is included in the overall search traffic in the Performance report, under the Web search type, and is not split out as a separate number. A tracker therefore measures something else: whether you are named and linked.
What happens when Google shows no AI Overview for a question?
Nothing negative. The question is left out of that week's AI Overviews score instead of counting as a miss, and the report shows how many of your questions had an overview.
What is the difference between AI Overviews and AI Mode?
AI Overviews appear above the results for some searches. AI Mode is a separate conversational experience that people open on purpose. Nodpick measures them as two engines. See AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Is there a free AI Overview tracker?
The free check covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, not Google AI Overviews. Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are in the paid plans, from 49 € a month.
Does being linked in an AI Overview mean Google recommends me?
No. A link means your page supported part of the answer. Who gets named depends on what the linked pages say about the category. Track both, because they move separately.