The search queries that Google AI Mode performs as an intermediate step in compiling its answers do not appear in Google Search Console. The question is how useful such information would be.
When you perform a search in the new Google AI Mode, multiple search queries are executed in parallel in the background. This is called query fan-out. Dozens of search queries can be executed simultaneously. For each search query, one or more web pages are used that Google receives as a result of the query.
It’s not transparent which search queries Google executes during query fan-out, and which websites are used and which are discarded. This information also won’t appear in the Google Search Console.
John Müller wrote on Bluesky that such search queries are not logged separately in the Search Console. What is displayed there is what users see; there is no theoretical logging of search queries. He also doesn’t believe this is helpful to anyone. For example, if AI Mode performs ten search queries, of which your website appears in six, but the website doesn’t appear in the final display, what should be displayed in the Search Console?
It might be interesting to know which search queries Google generates from a prompt in AI mode and which websites are preferred. This could help create appropriate content and optimize pages accordingly.
