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  The market for tools that claim to tell businesses how often they’re appearing in AI Overviews has grown faster than the methodological rigour of those tools has kept up with. Most of the third-party measure AI Overview visibility scores circulating in the SEO industry are built on sampling crawling a defined set of queries at defined intervals and recording whether an AI Overview appeared and whether the target site was cited within it. The issues with the above approach are concrete enough to affect the business decisions which will be made according to those scores: the query sets are never complete enough to cover all possible scenarios where the site would show up, the crawl frequency is never high enough to account for the AI Overview variations which Google runs continuously in different user contexts, and there is enough variance built into the methodology so that any change in score from one week to the next could mean either an actual change in visibility or the varian...