Is AI Overview like ChatGPT?

AI Overview and ChatGPT are similar in that both use generative AI to produce a written answer rather than a list of links, but they are separate products built on separate technology. AI Overview runs on Google's own models, tuned specifically to summarize Google's search index and cite sources inline.

ChatGPT is a general purpose assistant from OpenAI that can browse the web when its search feature is enabled, but it also answers from its training data and can hold multi turn conversations well beyond search. AI Overview is narrower, appearing only within a Google search results page.

Both draw on ranked web content and both can cite your page, which is why GEO work benefits both surfaces at once rather than requiring separate strategies for each.

Our generative engine optimization softwaretracks citations across both platforms in one place.