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why are my competitors showing up in Google AI overviews for my main keywords while my business website is completely left out

ChatGPTgpt-62 queries11/1/2026
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Fan-out diagram

The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
why are my competitors showing up in Google AI overviews for my main keywords while my business website is completely left out
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Google Search Central AI features AI Overviews website owners guidance content eligibility ranking systems 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
Google Search Central creating helpful reliable people-first content structured data crawling indexing AI OverviewsGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational

Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

ChatGPT real searches (2)
Short factOther / navigational100%ComparisonConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstructionYes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
Google Search Central AI features AI Overviews website owners guidance content eligibility ranking systems 2026 Google ↗
Google Search Central creating helpful reliable people-first content structured data crawling indexing AI Overviews Google ↗

Queries

2 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
Google Search Central AI features AI Overviews website owners guidance content eligibility ranking systems 2026
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
Google Search Central creating helpful reliable people-first content structured data crawling indexing AI Overviews
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1