6 categories · RankedGoogle Search Console
Google Search Console is a free tool from Google that reports first-party search data for a website, including search queries, clicks, impressions and indexing status, and sends site-issue alerts · search.google.com ↗
Gane, the publisher, sells software in SEO, Content marketing and AI visibility, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Surfer SEO is first at 19%.
Surfer SEO is first at 24%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Conductor is first at 50%.
Why models recommend it
“Google Search Console is the first-party tool Google recommends”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · first choice
“Stick to established, transparent SEO tools for research and analytics (e.g., Google Search Console, Ahrefs, Semrush, Screaming Frog).”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Established SEO platforms (like Semrush, Ahrefs, or Google Search Console) have added AI Overview and citation monitoring features”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Pair it with Google Search Console, which is free and provides actual Google Search performance and indexing data.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Search Console, over the 85 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 6 | View → | |
| 44 | 10 | View → | |
| 37 | 4 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → | |
| 33 | 10 | View → | |
| 30 | 5 | View → | |
| 28 | 2 | View → | |
| 21 | 5 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 5 | View → |
What the models named instead of Google Search Console →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google Search Console's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Founded
- 1998
- Also from Google
- Adometry, Attribution 360, BigQuery, Firebase, Google ADH, Google Ad Manager and 83 more
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 82 of the 85 answers that named Google Search Console and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
165 of the 165 domain citations in answers naming Google Search Console came from a third party's page.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 707 | undated | |||
| Blog | 371 | 0 | 2018-12-13 | Mobile apps | |
| Comparison | 35 | undated | |||
| News or press | 18 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2018-12-13 |
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 search.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.