Google is starting to lift the veil on site visibility in AI Overviews and AI Mode. A breakthrough awaited for months by SEO professionals.
Since the launch of generative features in search results, a question kept coming up among site publishers: how to measure your visibility in the responses generated by AI? Until now the answer was simple, it was almost impossible to have reliable data.
Google however, has just announced a highly anticipated novelty with the arrival of reports dedicated to AI results in the Search Console. A development that could change the way SEOs analyze their presence in the search engine…
Reports dedicated to AI Overviews and AI Mode
Source: Google
In a post published this June 3Google announces the gradual deployment of a new “Generative AI Performance” report within Search Console.
The goal is to allow site owners to better understand their visibility in the search engine’s generative features, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. Concretely, users will be able to consult the number of impressions obtained in these spaces, identify the most visible pages, analyze performance by country or by device, and follow the evolution over time thanks to daily, weekly or monthly data.
This information was previously mixed with overall Search Console data, but Google now offers a specific view dedicated to its AI-powered experiences.
However, the deployment remains limited to a selection of sites, in order to collect feedback before wider generalization.
Google is (partly) catching up on Bing
This announcement has a particular taste for SEO specialists, because Microsoft already offered a similar approach in Bing Webmaster Tools. Better yet, Bing provides some data related to queries that generate impressions, something Google is still tight-lipped about today.
In other words, Microsoft had the feature before Google, but not the users to fully exploit it. Despite the efforts around Copilot, general public use remains largely dominated by ChatGPT and, now… by Gemini. And it is precisely this context that makes Google’s announcement even more relevant.
A feature that arrives at the right time
During the last edition of Google I/O 2026, Google indicated that Gemini now had nearly 750 million users. A progression which now positions the assistant as a real alternative to ChatGPT among the general public.
As usage shifts toward conversational interfaces and AI-generated responses, publishers need to understand how their content is exposed in these new formats.
However, some frustrations remain. AI Overviews and AI Mode are still not available in France, which immediately limits the interest of this new feature for many French players. It remains to be seen whether French-speaking sites will still be able to monitor their visibility in countries where these features are already active.
In the screenshots that have been circulating, we also note the absence of data on the requests. Indeed, impressions, pages or countries are useful, but knowing the questions that actually trigger an appearance in AI results would be even more valuable.
Despite these reservations, this development is clearly going in the right direction. All that remains is to wait for the report to be opened to more sites to see the result…
