Where do real buyer questions show up?
From each tool's own documentation, checked 13 November 2026.
| Source | What it gives you | Limits and details |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console, Performance report | Clicks, impressions, click-through rate and average position, grouped by query, page, country, device, search appearance or date | The default view covers the past three months. AI Overviews and AI Mode traffic is included in the "Web" search type |
| Search Console Search Analytics API | The same data, for export and analysis | rowLimit from 1 to 25,000 rows per request, default 1,000; page through with startRow |
| Bing Webmaster Tools, AI Performance: grounding queries | The key phrases Bing's AI used when retrieving content that was then cited | A sample of overall citation activity; preview feature |
| Bing Webmaster Tools, AI Performance: Intents and Topics | Grounding queries classified by intent (such as Informational, Commercial, Navigational, Learn and Solve, Research, Creation, Local) and grouped into topic clusters | Added in preview in June 2026; Bing says labels may be broad during the preview |
| Google AI Overviews and AI Mode | No query data, but Google says both may use "query fan-out", issuing several related searches across subtopics to build one answer | Google says this lets it show a wider and more diverse set of supporting links than a classic web search |
How do you turn questions into pages?
- Collect. Export the queries from Search Console and the grounding queries from Bing. Add the questions buyers ask your sales team and the "people also ask" questions you see in results.
- Cluster. Group them by intent: cost, process, comparison, risk, local. Bing's Intents and Topics views do a first pass of this for Bing's AI.
- Answer. One page per cluster. Put the question in the heading and answer it in the first sentence, with the number, date and source in that sentence.
- Cover the sub-questions. Because AI Overviews and AI Mode may run related searches across subtopics, give each likely follow-up question its own short, self-contained section.
A page exists to be quoted. If no single passage can answer the question on its own, rewrite it until one can; be citable covers how.
Sources
Checked 13 November 2026:
- Google Search Console Help: Performance report (Search results)
- Google for Developers: Search Analytics: query
- Google Search Central: AI features and your website
- Microsoft Bing Blog: Introducing AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools Public Preview; New AI Visibility Insights: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, Compare