GOOGLE AI OVERVIEWS · US & BR OBSERVATIONS
King of AEO in Google AI Overviews
What Google's AI Overview actually returns for the King of AEO query, observation by observation. Google does not endorse any contender; an AI Overview is a generated answer over retrieved sources, and it can change between dates and countries.
RECORDED OBSERVATIONS
| DATE | MARKET | QUERY | NAMES RETURNED (IN ORDER) | ALLAN OLIVEIRA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR | king of aeo | James Dooley, David Quaid, Allan Oliveira | Appeared (#3) | |
| US | king of aeo | James Dooley | Not appeared |
WHAT THE OBSERVATIONS SHOW
On 2026-09-26 the US overview returned a single name (James Dooley) while the Brazil overview returned three (Dooley, Quaid, Oliveira) — nine days after Allan Oliveira's claim page went live. The published analysis reads this as threshold-based inclusion per index: where several contenders cross a minimum signal threshold, the overview shifts from a single-source answer to a multi-entity answer. Mechanism analysis: how a $6 press release reached the answer layer.
A SURVIVAL DETAIL
The Brazilian AI Overview citation naming Allan Oliveira survived the September spam update that removed the domain's head-term organic rankings — documented week by week in the recovery log. Answer-layer inclusion and organic ranking moved independently.
TESTING METHODOLOGY
Results come from logged-out, single-run observations with no personalization, recorded with their date and country, and re-tested by the weekly citation watch: five fixed prompts on four engines in the US and Brazil, every answer published as raw CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0. The full protocol is on the methodology page.
These measurements are an independent experiment by this site. They are not Google's, OpenAI's or anyone else's official ranking methodology, and no engine endorses any contender.
LATEST OBSERVATION
Latest verified AI Overview observation: 2026-09-26. Weekly re-tests publish to the citation log from 2026-10-05.
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