# Google Search Console — the record

Google's first-party reporting surface for site owners — including its newer generative-AI performance data.

Three items, moving in one direction: Google's own console is becoming the first-party instrument for AI-surface measurement. Search Central announced generative-AI performance reporting in Search Console in June 2026, giving sites impression and click data for AI surfaces rather than third-party estimates. Platform properties finished a staggered global rollout on July 29 — Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts can be verified as Search Console properties with Performance and Insights reports, the first property type requiring no website at all. The same console carries the cost side: its AI opt-out, used to exclude content from AI Overviews, may also remove a publisher from the Top Stories carousel now running inside them, per an analysis Google has not confirmed.

Also known as: https://search.google.com/search-console · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Console · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328216

- 2026-09-16: Google pilots paying select publishers via Search Console (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-16-google-pilots-paying-select-publishers-via-search-console/)
  Google is piloting a program that pays a small group of publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to an AI-generated answer in Gemini, AI…
- 2026-09-13: Google: Search Console tracks AI Overviews position only as a block (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-13-google-search-console-tracks-ai-overviews-position-only-as-a-block/)
  Responding to a Reddit thread, Google's John Mueller said Search Console reports AI Overviews position "as a block" rather than for individual links…
- 2026-09-01: Google Discover now sends news publishers more than twice what Search does (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-01-google-discover-now-sends-news-publishers-more-than-twice-what-search/)
  Across the 400-plus news publishers NewzDash tracks, Google Discover supplied 67.51% of Google traffic in the fourth quarter of 2025 against 27% for Web…
- 2026-08-31: Search Console's AI Overviews opt-out control rolls out to all sites (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-search-console-s-ai-overviews-opt-out-control-rolls-out-to-all-sites/)
  Google's Search Console documentation now says the Search generative AI control — the setting that removes a site from AI Overviews, AI Mode and…
- 2026-08-27: What Google's AI Overviews opt-out does, and two things it does not (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-what-google-s-ai-overviews-opt-out-does-and-two-things-it-does-not/)
  Google Search Console carries a Search generative AI control under Settings that takes a site out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in…
- 2026-08-01: Search Console platform properties roll out globally for social and video (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-search-console-platform-properties-roll-out-globally-for-social-and/)
  Search Console's platform properties — which let Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts be verified as first-class properties and show how their posts…
- 2026-07-28: Google's AI opt-out setting may cost publishers Top Stories placement (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-28-google-s-ai-opt-out-setting-may-cost-publishers-top-stories-placement/)
  An analysis by NewzDash founder John Shehata, reported by Search Engine Journal, finds Google now places Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews on…
- 2026-07-20: Search Console adds Generative AI performance reports (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-search-console-adds-generative-ai-performance-reports/)
  Google's Search Central announced performance reporting for generative-AI search experiences in Search Console, giving sites first-party impression and…

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