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People Also Ask answers with AI
In a sample we pulled while building this product, every one of 32 expanded People Also Ask answers was an AI Overview, not a quote from a page.
Google now answers many questions with an AI Overview and names a few sources beside it. GetTopQuestions shows what people ask, which questions no page really answers, and which sites the AI cites, including yours.
Search used to be ten blue links. Now an AI-written answer sits on top of them, and it decides which few sites get named.
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In a sample we pulled while building this product, every one of 32 expanded People Also Ask answers was an AI Overview, not a quote from a page.
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On a teeth-whitening topic, Google's AI Overview cited sources for 13 of the 16 questions we checked. Those few links are the new front page.
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A rank tracker reports your position in the list. It does not tell you whether the answer above the list names you, and that answer is what people read first.
Three things, read from the same Google results, shown side by side for every question in the tree.
One search opens Google's People Also Ask chain: about 15 questions, five levels deep, in the country and language you choose.
We read the search results behind a question and count the pages that genuinely target it. Few or none is a gap: a question you can own. Every verdict shows its evidence.
Each checked question lists the sites Google's AI Overview cites. Enter your domain to see where you are named, and where a competitor is instead.
Four steps, repeated. The tree tells you where to start; searching again tells you whether it worked.
Start with the words your customers use. One search is one credit, and the AI Overview sources come with it.
Sort the table by pages targeting each question. Fewest first is where an answer is missing.
Enter your domain. Questions where the AI names a competitor and not you are your second list.
Publish a page that answers the question directly, then run the search again. Every result is dated, so you can compare.
Nobody outside Google knows exactly how AI Overview picks its sources. These habits make an answer easy to find, quote and trust, which is good for human readers either way.
Put the direct answer right under the heading, then explain. An answer buried in the fourth paragraph is hard to quote.
Phrase headings the way people ask. It is how the question already appears in People Also Ask.
Give each question its own clearly bounded section, so a passage still makes sense when it is lifted out alone.
The tree shows what people ask next. Answering a question's children makes your page the complete source, not one of many.
Numbers, named sources and a named author. A specific claim is easier to trust than a general one.
Show when the page was last updated, and revisit it when the questions in your tree change.
AI search is new, and many tools in it sell certainty nobody has. This is exactly what GetTopQuestions measures, and what it doesn't.
We read Google's AI Overview. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are not measured, and nobody can sell you their real prompt volumes.
Every result carries the time it was fetched. Google's results move; search again to refresh.
It is computed from the pages we read and it will sometimes be wrong. The evidence is always shown, and you can mark any verdict right or wrong.
Nobody can promise an AI will cite you. We show where the opening is; the answer is yours to write.
AI SEO, also called GEO (generative engine optimization) or AEO (answer engine optimization), is the work of getting your content used and cited in AI-written answers such as Google's AI Overview, not only ranked in the links below them.
It builds on it. AI answers draw on pages search engines can already find, so crawlability and quality still matter. What changes is the target: a clear, quotable answer to a specific question, rather than a page that ranks for a keyword.
Google's AI Overview, read from the same search results we use to find gaps. Other assistants are not tracked today.
For each question we fetch the search results and compare every page against the question, then count the pages that genuinely target it. Few or none means a gap. It is an estimate, and the pages behind it are always shown.
Every search is one credit, and the AI Overview sources come with it at no extra cost. Reopening a result you already have is free.
Search a topic and see the gaps, and the sites the AI cites, in one view.