Since June 2026, Google Search Console has included a dedicated generative AI report<\/strong> that separates the impressions your site gets inside AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover AI from the rest of traditional search results. It’s the first time Google has delivered, directly inside Search Console, a view of how often your content shows up cited inside an AI-generated answer, rather than only in the classic list of blue links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a B2B SME, this answers a question that was almost impossible to answer with first-party data until now: is Google’s AI citing me or not?<\/strong> Before, you had to infer it from a drop in clicks or rely on external third-party tools. Now Search Console shows it directly, though still with limitations worth knowing before drawing quick conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The report appears inside the Search Console Performance module as a new search type filter. Once you turn it on, you can segment impressions by page, country, device, and date, the same way you already do with traditional search. The rollout is gradual by country: if you don’t see it yet on your Chile or Brazil property, check again in the coming weeks, since Google is enabling it in waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now the report only delivers impressions<\/strong>: how many times one of your pages shows up as a source inside an AI answer. It doesn’t include clicks or CTR, which is exactly the number a marketing team most needs to calculate return. Google has said that data will arrive later, but today the report mainly works as a visibility diagnostic, not a way to measure direct conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Search Console also removed several legacy reports (Mobile Usability, AMP, HTML Improvements, URL Parameters) to make room for this new AI layer, and added brand\/non-brand segmentation, chart annotations, and natural-language configuration. It’s worth exploring the whole module, not just the AI filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We already knew, from the Similarweb study on ChatGPT<\/a>, that being cited by generative AI multiplies the traffic a site receives. The AI Overviews report in Search Console is Google’s side of that same coin: it tells you whether your content is making it into that answer layer before the user ever clicks a result. For an SME competing with bigger-budget companies, being cited inside the AI answer is often the only way to be present while the buyer is researching their next purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The risk of not checking it is going blind to a traffic drop that traditional rankings don’t explain: your position in the classic listing can stay stable while real impressions migrate to AI answers where you’re not cited at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the report turned on, here’s what’s worth reviewing this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow to turn on and read the AI Overviews report<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What data it shows (and what’s still missing)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Why this matters for a B2B SME in Chile and Brazil<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How to use this data to win more traffic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Connecting this to your GEO strategy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n