Google made a move last week that every blogger and SEO professional needs to know about. On June 3, 2026, Google introduced dedicated AI performance reporting in Search Console. For the first time, you can see exactly how often your pages appear in AI overviews and AI mode – independent of your regular organic rankings.
The new Search Console reports give you specialized views of your impressions within generative AI features in Search, such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, as well as generative AI features in Discover.
This is a big deal. For two years, SEOs have been asking Google whether their content even appears in AI responses. There was no way to find out. Now there is.
Reports include impressions, pages, countries, devices and data, but not click data. So you can see that your page was viewed 10,000 times in the last month in an AI overview, but you can’t see how many of those appearances resulted in clicks. Google does not yet provide us with this data.
Google is also testing a toggle that lets you control whether your site appears in AI generative search features. The switch allows sites to block their content from appearing in AI Summaries, AI Mode, and AI Summaries in Discover. Both features will initially roll out to a subset of sites in the UK, and Google says they will expand globally after testing.
Reddit’s R/SEO at https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/ is already running a live thread about this. The most commonly discussed question is whether blocking AI reviews makes sense for publishers who make money from advertising revenue, as AI responses reduce the need for users to click on your site in the first place.
Should you block AI overviews?
Unsubscribing does not affect the organic ranking. Google has confirmed that the opt-out setting will not be used as a ranking signal for regular search. Sites that opt ​​out will continue to appear normally in search results and the Discover feed – only AI Overviews, AI Mode, and AI Overviews in Discover are affected.
The new GSC switch is the first control to block AI features without compromising organic snippets. Previously, using Nosnippet blocked AI features but also removed your organic snippet. The new switch solves this problem cleanly.
For most bloggers, the answer is probably no – staying in AI overviews will keep your brand visible even if the user doesn’t click. However, for websites that rely on pageview-based advertising revenue, blocking makes more sense because AI overviews directly reduce clicks.
X at https://x.com/search?q=Google+Search+Console+AI+report+2026 Site owners publish their first impression data from the new report. The numbers surprise many people – some websites appear in AI overviews far more often than expected, meaning they have gained brand recognition without knowing it.
Quora on https://www.quora.com/Should-I-block-my-site-from-Google-AI-Overviews has initial responses from SEOs weighing the opt-out decision across different website monetization models.
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