What Google’s AI says about your brand.
Gemini is Google’s AI model and is built into many Google products. For every prompt in the project, BrandZaps measures whether Gemini mentions your brand, whether it cites sources, whether your website is among them and which competitors it recommends.
Gemini: how BrandZaps measures it.
Every measurement is tied to the answer that was actually returned. The measurement rules are open, so every figure can be put in context.
BrandZaps collects the answer through the Gemini web interface. This measures what users see there.
For each answer, BrandZaps records separately whether an answer appeared and whether it had a source list. This lets you tell whether there was no source to win, or whether sources were listed but your website was not among them.
What becomes visible for each prompt.
The last ten answers per prompt and platform are kept. The measured values are stored permanently.
Weekly, instant and retroactive.
No answer, no source list, and a source list without your website are not the same thing. Recording them separately gives a more precise finding.
Counted from the last measurement, not on a fixed weekday.
If competitors or brand spellings change, BrandZaps re-evaluates the stored answers.
Gemini in the shared AI context.
Gemini is one of ten platforms that BrandZaps measures in full. The results feed into AI visibility, AI source analysis, AI competitor analysis and AI brand perception.
Platform profile
Gemini relies on Google Search.
Gemini is Google’s AI. It is available as its own app and built into services such as Gmail, Google Docs and Android, where many people already work. For current answers, Gemini anchors its statements in Google Search results; Google calls this grounding.
This is controlled with the Google-Extended token in robots.txt. It decides whether content may be used to train Gemini and for grounding in the Gemini app. According to Google, it has no effect on inclusion or ranking in Google Search.
- Provider
- Google, USA
- Answers
- grounded in Google Search
- Control
- Google-Extended
- Effect on ranking
- none, according to Google
What you can do
- Set Google-Extended deliberately. Blocking it also excludes your content from grounding in the Gemini app.
- Be visible in Google Search, because Gemini draws its current sources from those results.
- Name your brand and offer consistently: on your website, in your Google Business Profile and in structured data.
Related content
- AI visibilityCitabilityCan AI use your page as a source?
- AI visibilityPrompt trackingCustomer questions across ten platforms
- AI visibilityAI visibilityYour brand in AI answers, at a glance
- AI visibilityAI source analysisWhich websites AI refers to
Three situations, three different findings.
Gemini is one of ten platforms that BrandZaps measures in full.




