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Free AI Overview checker: does Google’s AI cite your site?

Check your keywords in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode at once: whether Google answers them with AI, whether it cites you, and which sites it trusts instead.

The searches your customers type into Google, one per line.

Free, no sign-up. Up to 5 checks a day.

What this AI Overview checker does

This AI Overview checker runs each of your keywords as a real Google search in the market you pick and reads three things for every one of them:

  • AI Overview: whether Google shows one, whether it cites your site as a source and in which position, or names your brand without a link.
  • AI Mode: the answer Google’s AI Mode gives to the same search and the sources it cites, since it answers almost every query, with or without an AI Overview.
  • Organic position: where your site ranks in the top 20 regular results, so you can see where ranking well is not turning into a citation.

Below the table you get the sites Google’s AI cites most for your keywords: the pages it builds its answers from, and the ones worth being on.

How to read the results

Start with the keywords where you rank in the top 10 and the AI Overview does not cite you. Google already considers your page relevant; the AI summary is picking someone else’s passage. Compare your page with the sources it cites: they usually answer the question in the first lines, cover it more completely or come from a site with more reviews and mentions.

Then look at the searches without an AI Overview. They can get one at any time, and AI Mode already answers them. If AI Mode cites your competitors and not you, that is where the next AI Overview will come from.

How to get cited in AI Overviews

  • Answer the query in the first paragraph of the page, in words Google can quote as they are.
  • Make sure Googlebot can crawl the page and that no nosnippet or max-snippet rule stops Google from quoting it; our AI crawler checker shows both.
  • Earn mentions on the sites Google cites for your topic: the sources list in your results tells you which ones.
  • Track the same keywords over time. AI Overviews appear, disappear and change sources from week to week, so one check tells you little about the trend.

From a check to daily tracking

A check shows you today. Mencoro’s AI Overview tracker checks your keywords every day in AI Overviews and AI Mode, next to your organic rankings, and shows which pages Google cites and how often you appear against your competitors, from €15 a month. To compare it with the alternatives, see our guide to the best AI Overview trackers . For what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about your brand, use the AI visibility checker .

FAQ

AI Overview checker: frequently asked questions

Enter your domain and up to five keywords. The checker runs each search on Google in the market you choose and tells you whether an AI Overview appears, whether it cites your site and in which position, what Google’s AI Mode answers for the same search, and where you rank in the top 20 organic results.
Yes, with no sign-up and no email. Every check runs real Google searches, so it is limited to five checks a day per visitor, with up to five keywords each.
An AI Overview is the AI summary Google shows above the regular results for some searches. AI Mode is a separate tab where Google answers the search as a conversation, with its own sources, and it answers almost every query. A site can be cited in one and not in the other, which is why the checker looks at both.
AI Overviews do not simply quote the top results. Google picks passages that answer the question directly, often from pages that rank lower or from forums and review sites. Pages that answer the query in their first lines, cover it completely and are easy to quote get cited more often. The keywords where you rank in the top 10 but are not cited are the closest opportunities.
AI Overviews change with the location, the device and the moment of the search, and Google tests them constantly. The checker searches from the country you choose without personalization, so your own browser, signed in and with your history, can show something else. Any single check is a snapshot; tracking the same keywords daily shows the real pattern.

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