AI Overview

also known as: Google AI Overview · AIO

Google’s AI-generated summary block shown above the classic results for many queries, composed by Google’s models from retrieved pages, with source links attached. Because it sits at position zero and answers the question directly, it reshapes what gets read and clicked — and there is no official Google API for it, so capturing one means rendering the real results page and extracting the block.

In AI Search API

The google_ai_overview surface. Captured browser-first on the own-fleet lane (auto resolves to own-fleet at consumer_ui fidelity); official-api has no path and the managed-vendor lane is phase-2. When no Overview renders for a query, absence-is-data applies: the job completes with surfacePresent: false and the surface_absent flag.

POST /v1/search — capture an AI Overview

{
  "query": "best travel mirrorless 2026",
  "surfaces": ["google_ai_overview"],
  "regions": [{ "country": "US" }]
}

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Every definition here is enforced in the Envelope contract — run a capture and read the fields yourself.

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