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How to track brand visibility in Google AI Mode
Google AI Mode is a conversational Google tab with no classic results. It runs query fan-out, decomposing one question into as many as 16 parallel searches before synthesising an answer. Nostimates tracks it separately from AI Overviews because a brand can win one and lose the other.
What matters on this engine
On Google's own figures AI Mode reached roughly 1 billion monthly users inside twelve months, on a faster Gemini model tier, with queries about 3x longer than classic search.
Fan-out means the citation set can include sources that never rank for the literal prompt, which is why AI Mode results routinely disagree with AI Overviews for the same query.
Collection is anonymous, same as AI Overviews, but the citation logic differs enough that we ship separate parsers and separate canaries.
Citation structure
Inline linked sources plus a right-hand source panel; order is not rank order.
Access model
Collected logged-out through residential proxies in your target market. No account, no personalisation, fully reproducible.
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Data types we return for Google AI Mode
Each field is parsed, sampled and priced separately on this engine. Open one to see how it renders here, what the response looks like and where it goes wrong.
Google AI Mode citations
The linked sources an engine attaches to its answer.
citations
Google AI Mode brand mentions
Unlinked names in the answer body, which citations miss entirely.
brand_mentions
Google AI Mode sources
The full reference panel, including sources the answer never links inline.
sources
Google AI Mode answer text
The raw synthesised answer, stored verbatim as evidence.
answer_text
Google AI Mode share of voice
Your brand against its competitors, across the whole prompt set.
share_of_voice
Google AI Mode sentiment
How the answer characterises a brand, not just whether it names it.
sentiment
Google AI Mode prompt volatility
How much the same prompt disagrees with itself.
prompt_volatility
Google AI Mode position
Where in the citation set you land, not just whether you are in it.
position
Google AI Mode locale variance
The same prompt, run in different markets, disagreeing.
locale_variance
Track Google AI Mode from next week
See it in the dashboard, or pull it into your own tools — either way, tell us your prompt set and target markets and we'll come back with a coverage plan and a price for this engine alongside anything else you need.
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