# Google admitted it: you can now measure your visibility in AI answers Rodrigo Beckmann · Published 2026-06-05 · Updated 2026-10-19 · Category: [News](https://rodrigobeckmann.com/en/blog/category/news/) · HTML version: https://rodrigobeckmann.com/en/blog/search-console-ai-report/ Search Console added a dedicated generative AI report — AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover. What it shows, what it hides, and how to use it without fooling yourself. ## In short - On June 3, 2026, Google launched a generative AI report in Search Console that separates a site's impressions in AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover. - The report shows impressions only, by page, country, date and device: no clicks, no position and no competitors, and it covers only Google's AI. - The rollout started in the U.K., with no date for other countries. On June 3, 2026, Google [launched](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/06/gen-ai-performance-reports) a dedicated generative AI visibility report inside **Search Console**, Google's free tool for site owners to track their presence in Search. For the first time, you can separate how often your site appeared in **AI Overviews**, **AI Mode**, and the **AI features in Discover** — instead of seeing it all blended into one impressions number. It's a quiet milestone. For two years the industry asked the same question — "am I showing up in AI or not?" Google just admitted, in practice, that the question deserves a dashboard of its own. ![The "Generative AI" tab in Google Search Console, with a chart of impressions in AI answers](https://rodrigobeckmann.com/blog/search-console-ai-report-panel.en.svg) ## What the report shows The new view lives under **Performance → Search results**, in a **Generative AI** tab next to "Search results" and "Discover." It reports *impressions* — how often URLs from your site appeared in generative AI features across Search and Discover — broken down by four dimensions: - **Pages** — which URLs show up in the answers. - **Countries** — where the impression happened. - **Dates** — how it moves over time. - **Devices** — desktop, mobile, or tablet. This data is also folded into the overall performance report, so it complements — not replaces — the view you already track. ## What it does *not* show This is where enthusiasm needs a brake. Three limits matter: - **No position, no competitive context.** You see that you appeared, not *why*, and not who appeared alongside you. There is no "ranking" inside an AI answer. - **Google's AI only.** The report covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover. It does not cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, the Gemini app, or Grok — which is where a large share of your mentions actually happen. - **Gradual rollout.** It's shipping to a subset of sites, starting in the U.K., with a global rollout to follow. There's no date per country; if the tab hasn't appeared for you yet, that's expected. ![The report covers AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover — but leaves out ChatGPT, Perplexity, the Gemini app and Grok](https://rodrigobeckmann.com/blog/search-console-ai-report-coverage.en.svg) ## How to use it without fooling yourself Treat the report as **a free thermometer of your visibility in Google's AI** — not as the full scoreboard for your GEO. Three honest uses: 1. **Baseline.** Record today's AI impressions number. It's your starting point for measuring the effect of any content change. 2. **Which pages AI picks.** Cross the Pages tab with what you publish. The URLs that surface in answers reveal what kind of structure the model finds quotable — and that lesson carries to any engine, not just Google. 3. **Recency signal.** Watch the date curve after you refresh content. Retrieval-grounded models reward fresh material; the report gives you a proxy for that. What it won't solve on its own is the full picture: *how does the brand show up across all AI engines?* ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini sit outside the report and need to be measured separately, with enough runs to tell a pattern from chance. [FA-MET-01, "How to Measure What an AI Recommends"](https://rodrigobeckmann.com/en/research/how-to-measure-what-an-ai-recommends), a methodological study First Answer published in April 2026 based on 7,000 runs in the ChatGPT interface, shows that with 1,000 runs, a brand's presence is measured within ±3.1 percentage points. ## What comes next The piece that would really change the game hasn't landed yet: **API access**. The day this data leaves the dashboard and can be cross-referenced with your other metrics — revenue, mentions outside Google, conversions — the quality of the insight jumps a level. For now, it's a good thermometer. And a thermometer beats guessing. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the Google Search Console generative AI report? It's a tab called Generative AI, under Performance in Search Console, launched by Google on June 3, 2026. It shows how often a site's URLs appeared in AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover's AI features, separated from total Search impressions. ### Does the Search Console report show clicks from AI answers? No. It reports impressions, broken down by pages, countries, dates and devices. It doesn't show clicks, position inside the answer or which competitors appeared alongside. ### Does the Search Console AI report measure ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini? No. It covers only Google's AI surfaces: AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover. ChatGPT, Perplexity, the Gemini app and Grok are left out and need to be measured by other means. ### Is the Search Console generative AI report available everywhere? At launch, Google rolled the report out to a subset of sites, starting in the U.K., with a global rollout to follow and no specific date per country. ## Sources 1. [Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/06/gen-ai-performance-reports) — Google Search Central Blog, 03 Jun 2026 · primary source **Rodrigo Beckmann** — GEO specialist, co-founder and CTO of First Answer. [More about the author](https://rodrigobeckmann.com/en/about/)