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  "slug": "why-does-google-ai-overviews-summarize-our-competitors-legal-pages-but-ignore-our-own",
  "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/why-does-google-ai-overviews-summarize-our-competitors-legal-pages-but-ignore-our-own",
  "question": "Why does Google AI Overviews summarize our competitors' legal pages but ignore our own?",
  "description": "Discover why Google AI Overviews may overlook your legal pages while citing competitors. Learn how to diagnose visibility gaps and improve your AI search presence.",
  "summary": "Google AI Overviews prioritizes content that is machine-readable and highly relevant to user intent. By auditing your technical accessibility and benchmarking against competitors, you can identify why your legal pages are being ignored and implement specific structural improvements to increase your citation rate in AI-generated search results.",
  "answer": "Google AI Overviews selects sources based on technical accessibility, content relevance, and structural clarity. If your legal pages are ignored, it is often due to poor machine-readability or a lack of clear, authoritative signals that the model requires to verify your content. To resolve this, you must ensure your pages are crawlable and use structured data to define the content's purpose. Trakkr helps you monitor these citation gaps by benchmarking your presence against competitors, allowing you to diagnose whether technical barriers or content alignment issues are preventing your pages from appearing in AI-generated summaries.",
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  ],
  "entities": [
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "Trakkr",
    "Gemini",
    "Structured Data",
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  "createdAt": "2026-03-06",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-04-19",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-16",
  "articleSection": "Citation Intelligence",
  "tags": [
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    "Gemini",
    "Google AI Overviews",
    "Trakkr",
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  "author": {
    "id": "trakkr-research",
    "name": "Trakkr Research",
    "role": "Research team",
    "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/authors/trakkr-research/"
  },
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      "title": "Brand Defense"
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      "title": "How to audit citations, sources, and answer grounding",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/citation-audits/"
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    {
      "slug": "technical-ai-visibility",
      "title": "Technical AI visibility setup for crawlers, schema, and discovery",
      "url": "https://answers.trakkr.ai/guides/technical-ai-visibility/"
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  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Google AI features and your website",
      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features",
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