| AI Overviews reach | 1.5 billion users/month across 200+ countries | Google | | AI Overviews query coverage | 50%+ of all queries | Industry data | | AI-referred sessions growth | 527% (Jan-May 2025) | SparkToro | | ChatGPT weekly active users | 900 million | OpenAI | | Perplexity monthly queries | 500+ million | Perplexity |
Brand mentions correlate 3× more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks. (Ahrefs December 2025 study of 75,000 brands)
| YouTube mentions | 0.737 (strongest) | | Reddit mentions | High | | Wikipedia presence | High | | LinkedIn presence | Moderate | | Domain Rating (backlinks) | 0.266 (weak) |
Optimize content for AI Overviews (formerly SGE), ChatGPT web search, Perplexity, and other AI-powered search experiences. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) analysis including brand mention signals, AI crawler accessibility, llms.txt compliance, passage-level citability scoring, and platform-specific optimization. Use when user says "AI Overviews", "SGE", "GEO", "AI search", "LLM optimization", "Perplexity", "AI citations", "ChatGPT search", or "AI visibility". Source: megastep/codex-skills.