Introducing Search Generative AI Performance Reports in Google Search Console
Google has launched new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console to enhance site visibility analysis. These reports provide insights into impressions, page performance, and user engagement across different devices and countries. Currently, the reports are being rolled out to a limited number of websites for testing and feedback before broader availability.
- ▪The new reports include dedicated views for Search and Discover.
- ▪Site owners can track impressions, pages, countries, devices, and performance over time.
- ▪Feedback from users is encouraged to improve the reports and add additional metrics.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 5 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
Hacker News (Newest) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 5,306 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Google for Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/06/gen-ai-performance-reports |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:06:02 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T12:12:05.478Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T12:12:05.478Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | BJLez1Y7O24D · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
.gargardate, .byline-author {font-size: smaller; font-style: italic} Home Search Central Google Search Central Blog Send feedback Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Today, we're excited to announce the launch of new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, including dedicated reports for Search and Discover, to help you understand your site's visibility within generative AI features on Search. The new Search Console reports are designed to give you dedicated views of your impressions within generative AI features on Search, such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, as well as generative AI features in Discover.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Google for Developers.
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