Google AI Mode visibility
See whether Google's AI Mode recommends your business
AI Mode is Google's conversational search tab, used by 100 million people a month (Alphabet). It answers in full and lets people refine with follow-up questions. Orbie tracks which businesses it recommends for your customers' questions.
How Google AI Mode chooses
How Google AI Mode decides which businesses to name
It runs many searches for one question
AI Mode breaks a question into many related searches (query fan-out) and combines the results, so it can reach pages that wouldn't rank for the original question.
Follow-ups narrow the choice
People ask a follow-up ('which is cheapest?', 'which is open on Sunday?'). Clear facts on price, availability and features help you stay in the answer.
It draws on Google's index
Like AI Overviews, AI Mode uses Google Search, so pages need to be crawlable, indexed and specific.
Answers are longer
AI Mode answers usually compare several options in more depth than an AI Overview, which gives smaller businesses more chances to be named.
What Orbie tracks
Your visibility on Google AI Mode, next to every other engine
Visibility and position
How often you are recommended for each question, how early you are named, and your share of voice.
Who wins instead
The competitors named in your place, and on which questions.
The sources behind the answer
The pages, lists, reviews and retailers the engine relied on.
How you are described
Sentiment, the strengths and concerns it repeats, and any wrong facts.
FAQ
Google AI Mode visibility questions
Does AI Mode use the same sources as AI Overviews?
Both are built on Google Search, but AI Mode runs more searches per question and handles follow-ups, so it can cite a wider set of pages. We measure them separately.
What helps a business appear in AI Mode?
Pages that answer specific questions with facts (prices, features, locations, availability), presence on the lists and reviews Google ranks for your topic, and consistent information everywhere.
What counts as a source in AI Mode, and how is it different from a backlink?
A source is a page AI Mode reads and links to in its answer. A backlink is a link from another site to yours. Being a source puts you in front of the person asking right away. Backlinks help indirectly: they help your pages rank, and AI Mode reads the pages that rank.
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