13 categories · RankedGane, the publisher, sells software in Attribution & MMM and Content marketing, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Why models recommend it
“1. Google (Nearby Messages / Proximity Beacon API / Geofencing in Firebase) ... ~24% share in some reports; leverages Android dominance for broad reach.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
“Prioritize ethical alternatives: Look at established players like Google (Nearby Messages/Beacon API), Purple, or Braze/Insider”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · first choice
“native solutions within Google, Meta, or LinkedIn (offer more transparency)”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · alternative
“Reach is unrivaled but control is limited to the API stack.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Be cautious with general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT (or similar LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) for RFP responses.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Platform-Native Attribution (Meta, Google, etc.) ... Fundamental conflict of interest.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Google's fraud detection catches only the most obvious fraud—industry estimates suggest their filters identify roughly 50-60% of total invalid traffic”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“First-party clean rooms from Amazon, Disney, Google and Meta combine the data source, the ad platform and the analytics environment.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google, over the 59 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 5 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- Choose an offer to earn up to $1500 in ad credit
- Customers named
- Branch Basics, Oliver Pluff & Co., VIM & VIGR, COVRY
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Founded
- 1998
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 52 of the 59 answers that named Google and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-eight of the ninety-five domain citations in answers naming Google came from a third party's page. Seven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 707 | undated | |||
| Blog | 372 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | Mobile apps | |
| Glossary or explainer | 51 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | ||
| Comparison | 35 | undated | |||
| News or press | 34 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2018-12-13Best practices for in app rewarded video ads blog
- 2018-12-13How to monetize your mobile apps with ads blog
- 2018-12-13What is AdMob - Google AdMob glossary or explainer
- 2018-11-19App marketing strategies to grow and monetize your app blog
- 2018-11-19How much revenue can you earn from admob blog
- 2018-11-19How to earn money with in app advertising blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page google.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.