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Vladimir Bazalenko, Founder, RendixUpdated Oct 10, 2026A Gemini visibility tracker asks Gemini the questions your buyers ask, on a schedule, and records whether your brand is named, in which place, and which sources Gemini draws on.
Rendix asks Gemini through Google's Vertex AI with grounding in Google Search on, three times a week, and keeps each answer with the brands it named, the domains it drew on and the searches it ran.
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Before answering, Gemini ran 3 Google searches.
Definition
How often and how high Gemini names your brand, and which sources it draws on. On Rendix's scans, three things set Gemini apart:
A Gemini answer lists more tools than any other engine's, so a place in it is worth less.
10 brands in a Gemini answer, median; ChatGPT 6, Perplexity 7, AI Overviews 5.
Answers naming one or more brands, 36 questions, Aug 10 to Oct 7, 2026. A full bar is 12 brands.
Source: Rendix scans of its own category
Asked for AI visibility tools, Gemini often answered with tools that watch AI apps instead.
18 of 26 Gemini answers to "best AI visibility tools for startups" named LLM-observability tools such as Langfuse and Helicone; ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews never did.
26 Gemini answers, Aug 10 to Oct 7, 2026. One of its own searches was "AI observability tools for startups" in 14 of the 26 runs.
Source: Rendix scans of its own category
Gemini rewrites the question into new searches every time it is asked.
5.3 % of Gemini's searches came back word for word on the next run of the same question; Perplexity 3.0 %.
1,534 Gemini searches in consecutive runs, 2 per answer (median), shown in 630 of 777 answers, Aug 10 to Oct 7, 2026. A full bar is 20 %.
Source: Rendix scans of its own category
Method
Gemini grounded in Google Search on a fixed schedule, every answer kept with its domains and its searches, read the same way each time.
Each question goes to Gemini through Google's Vertex AI with grounding in Google Search on. Not through the Gemini app.
Every tracked question runs on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and on paid plans any question can be re-run live, 30 times a month.
Grounding names the domains an answer drew on and never the page, so Rendix stores sources at domain level, with the searches Gemini ran. Grounding takes no market setting, so the answer is not localized.
Brands are matched by name, domain and known aliases, and a brand's place is the order in which the answer first names it.
First place earns 10 points, tenth earns 1, a mention without a place 1, no mention 0. The score is the points as a share of the maximum, over every question and run.
Runs
Two reasons: the Gemini app can answer differently from the grounded model Rendix asks, and the answer itself moves from run to run.
Across Rendix's scans the first brand changed in 47.1 % of Gemini's repeat answers, and only 5.3 % of its searches came back word for word. Your own check is one more sample, on another surface. Rendix asks the same wording on one surface on a fixed schedule, so the runs compare with each other.
Source: Rendix scans of its own category
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| Place in the answer | Sep 30 | Oct 2 | Oct 5 | Oct 7 | Oct 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Peec AI | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| OtterlyAI | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Semrush | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| Ahrefs | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
| Rankscale | 2 | 10 | - | 7 | - |
| SE Ranking | 8 | - | 8 | - | - |
| Mentionova | - | 5 | - | 6 | - |
| ZipTie | - | 9 | - | - | 7 |
In Rendix
Gemini's answers sit next to the other three engines on every question you track.
Each question's Gemini answer in full, with the brands named in order and the domains it drew on.
Prompts · a question's AnswersThe searches Gemini ran for every question you track, grouped under the question.
Prompts · Query fanoutsThe domains behind Gemini's answers across your questions, next to the pages the other engines cite.
CitationsThe brands Gemini names instead of you, and their share of its mentions.
CompetitorsAnswers from the ChatGPT chat with web search on, with every link it gives.
ChatGPT trackerAnswers from Perplexity's API, with the pages it read and the ones it pointed to.
Perplexity trackerThe overview Google shows above the results, with the pages it cites.
AI Overviews trackerPlans
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/ Updated Oct 10, 2026Need more help? team@rendix.io
A tool that asks Gemini your buyers' questions on a schedule and records whether your brand is named, in which place, and which sources Gemini drew on.
One answer is one sample, so the trend is the point. Rendix asks Gemini grounded in Google Search, three times a week.
Ask Gemini your buyers' questions on a schedule and keep every answer, with the brands it names in order.
Rendix picks the buyer questions in your category, asks them three times a week, and shows who is named, in which place, and which domains Gemini drew on.
Be in Google's index and among the results for the short searches Gemini runs, since its grounded answers draw on Google Search.
Rank alone is not enough: in Ahrefs' study only 8.6 % of the URLs Gemini cited also ranked in Google's top 10 for the same prompt. Blocking the Google-Extended token in robots.txt keeps your pages out of Gemini's grounding; it does not affect Google Search.
Source: Ahrefs, Aug 2025 · Google crawlers docs
No. Rendix asks Gemini through Vertex AI with grounding in Google Search, which returns the domains and the searches behind the answer.
The Gemini app can answer the same question differently. Rendix keeps one surface on a fixed schedule so the runs compare with each other, and says which surface it is.
Source: Google Cloud docs
Grounding names the domains an answer drew on and never the page.
Its source links are redirects, so the honest unit is the domain. Rendix shows Gemini's sources at domain level next to the pages the other engines cite.
Usually: Gemini returned its searches in 630 of 777 answers in Rendix's scans, two per answer at the median.
The searches change almost every run: only 5.3 % repeated word for word on the next run of the same question.
Source: Rendix scans of its own category
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