Does Google cite your page in its AI Overviews?
Type a keyword. The tool tells you whether Google shows an AI-generated overview for that search, which sites it cites, and whether your page is one of them.
A snapshot of Google at the moment of the check, for the country you pick. AI Overviews only appear on part of the searches, mostly questions. The result also reaches you by email, to keep it and compare next month.
Adrien Asselineau
SEO consultant for eleven years, publisher of Suiko
How I use it, and why
Before touching a page, I type its main query here. If Google shows an AI Overview, I look at who it cites: those are the pages it pulled its answers from, so the level of precision and freshness it expects on the topic. That tells me more in ten seconds than an hour spent reading competitors.
I repeat it on the fifteen or twenty queries that matter for a client, once a month. Sources move fast, and a page that drops out of the overview loses clicks without its Google position changing. It has become my first signal for deciding which page to update.
Why a free tool: because this is the check everyone should run and almost nobody does. If it is useful to you, good. If you want it to run on its own every month on the pages you create or update in Suiko, that is what it does.
What the tool looks at, and what it does not say
A real results page
The tool loads the Google results page for the country you pick, with the AI Overview when Google generates it after the page. What you see is what a searcher would see at the same moment.
The sources, not the text
I show the sites the overview cites, because that is what matters to you. The generated text changes from one hour to the next and teaches nothing.
A snapshot, not a tracker
Overviews move. To follow the pages created or updated in Suiko over time, it repeats this check every month and puts it next to your Search Console clicks.
No cookie, no tracker: your email goes to my inbox and nowhere else.
AI Overviews in ten questions
What I get asked most often about AI Overviews, plus the questions people ask Google about them. Short answers, with sources wherever there are numbers.
What is a Google AI Overview?
It is the AI-generated block of text Google sometimes shows at the very top of its results, above the usual links. It summarises an answer from pages across the web and cites its sources as links, usually between three and ten. That list of sources is what the tool looks at.
When did they arrive?
In the United States on 14 May 2024, after a year of testing under the name Search Generative Experience. The UK followed in August 2024, then more than a hundred countries in October 2024. Germany, Spain, Italy and six other European countries got them in late March 2025, and France only on 22 July 2026, after Google cited legal uncertainty to delay the launch. AI Mode, a fully conversational answer page, is more recent.
Why does the overview not show on every search?
Google only generates one when it judges that a summary helps more than a list of links: mostly questions, comparisons, and topics that need several pages combined. You will rarely see it on a brand search or a one-word query, and less often on health or money. It also varies by country, device and time of day. In Europe you often need to be signed in to a Google account and over 18 to see it, which is why two people do not see the same thing.
Am I losing clicks because of AI Overviews?
Yes, and I would rather say it plainly. Pew Research measured in 2025 that users click a result on 8% of searches with an overview, against 15% without. Ahrefs observed a drop of about a third in clicks for the first position when an overview appears. The figures vary from one study to the next, the direction does not.
Two nuances. Pages cited in the overview recover part of those clicks, the others lose them entirely. And Search Console does not separate clicks that come from the overview: you see the total drop without knowing why, which is why it is worth checking.
Why try to appear in the AI Overview?
Because it is the first thing the searcher reads, above the first position, on the questions your customers ask before buying. Three concrete reasons. The remaining clicks go to the cited pages: when the searcher wants more, they click a link in the overview or the results just below, where the same pages often appear. Credibility: Google presents you as the reference on the topic, and that is what people who do not click remember. Durability: a page that enters the overview often stays there, as long as it stays up to date.
And the opposite costs you twice. Absent from the overview, you lose the clicks it absorbs, and a competitor is presented in your place as the reference. On a query that matters to your business, that should settle it.
How do I get my page cited in the overview?
There is no trick, and be wary of anyone selling one. What I see on cited pages: they answer the question in the first lines, in simple sentences the AI can reuse as they are; they are up to date, with figures and dates; they already rank well for the query, most sources come from the first page, though not all; and the author is identifiable. Google’s documentation says the same thing at greater length: the criteria are those of classic SEO.
Nothing guarantees a citation. But a page that is never cited while three competitors are almost always has a freshness or clarity problem, and that can be fixed.
How do I check myself, without a tool?
Type the search into Google, signed in to your account, and look for an “AI Overview” block at the top. Click “Show more” to see all the sources. Two limits: you only see your own country and profile, and repeating this on twenty queries every month gets old fast. The tool above loads a neutral results page for the chosen country and lists the sources in ten seconds.
Why the tool rather than a Google search on my own computer?
For a single query, Google is enough. The tool brings four things your browser does not. A neutral result: on your computer, Google personalises the page from your account, your history, your location and the tests it runs on part of its users; the tool loads a blank results page, the one a stranger would see. Other countries: seeing what Google shows in the United States or Germany from elsewhere takes a VPN, here it is a menu. The sources laid out flat, with a verdict: in Google they are folded behind “Show more” and mixed into the text; the tool lists them with their title, compares exact URLs and says whether it is your page, your site without that page, or neither. And a dated record: the result arrives by email with the country and the date, so next month you can compare.
Can AI Overviews be turned off?
As a user, Google’s “Web” tab shows results without the overview. As a site owner, there is no setting specific to AI Overviews: the nosnippet tag or the data-nosnippet attribute remove your content from overviews, but also from classic snippets. I do not recommend it: leaving the overview does not bring the clicks back, it hands them to the sites that stay in.
How is it different from AI Mode and ChatGPT?
The AI Overview is a block above the classic results. AI Mode is a separate tab, fully conversational, where links matter even less. ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude are assistants outside Google, with their own sources and their own way of citing. The tool only looks at Google’s AI Overview, because that is where most of the traffic is decided today.