Gemini · answer coverage

Google’s assistant answers separately from its results.

Ranking on the results page does not decide whether the assistant names you.

Engine Gemini

950M+ people use it every month. Alphabet · Q2 2026

Wired through Search, Android, Gmail and Chrome. The assistant a Google shopper meets without looking for it.

Representative demo · Threshold Footwear
Representative demo · Threshold Footwear
Representative demo · Threshold Footwear

Why it matters

Why Gemini is worth measuring.

01

It is a second surface, not the same one

The assistant composes an answer. Your position on the classic results page is a different question with a different outcome.

02

Good SEO does not carry over automatically

A page can rank well and still give an assistant nothing specific to state. Both can be true at once.

03

It is sampled on every plan

Presence covers Gemini alongside ChatGPT and Perplexity, not only the higher tiers.

What Burnish does

Four things, on this engine, every cycle.

Nothing here is a projection. Each row is a reading, a change, or a comparison between the two.

Ask

The questions your buyers actually ask

A board of buyer questions in sentences, not keywords — 50 on Presence and Authority, 100 on Omnipresence.

Representative demo · Threshold Footwear
Representative demo · Threshold Footwear

Check

What it says when asked about you

A 12-question battery on legitimacy, returns, shipping, warranty and provenance, and whether Gemini can answer each one.

Representative demo · Threshold Footwear
Representative demo · Threshold Footwear

Fix

What the answer is drawn from

Descriptions, structured data, FAQs and alt text written back to your catalog — approved first, reversible in one click.

Representative demo · Threshold Footwear
Representative demo · Threshold Footwear

Prove

What moved after the change

Readings before and after, on the same questions. Attribution is correlation over a window, and the page says so.

Representative demo · Threshold Footwear
Representative demo · Threshold Footwear

Under the hood

How Burnish reads Gemini.

Sampler · Gemini Gemini 2.5 Flash

“Is Threshold Footwear legit?”

I don’t have enough information about Threshold Footwear to say.

Doesn't know you

Read over a rolling 21-day window

Model queried

Gemini 2.5 Flash. When a provider changes the model behind an assistant, the page changes with it rather than keeping a name that is no longer true.

What gets asked

A 50-question board of buyer questions on Presence and Authority, 100 on Omnipresence, plus a 12-question reputation battery covering legitimacy, returns, shipping, warranty and provenance.

How often

The reputation battery runs on a 72-hour cycle. Discovery questions fire on a rotating schedule — one every 120 minutes on Presence, 90 on Authority, 35 on Omnipresence — so the board is swept continuously rather than in one daily batch.

How it is scored

Answers from Gemini are read over a rolling 21-day window, and a score is withheld below ten samples rather than shown as a number that a handful of readings cannot support.

Questions.

Does Burnish track my Google rankings?

No. Burnish measures answer engines only. It does not track Google positions and is not connected to Search Console — if you need rank tracking, that is a different tool.

We already rank on page one. Is that not enough?

It settles the results page, not the answer. The assistant composes from what it can read and check, which is why a well-ranked store can still go unnamed.

Is Gemini included on the entry plan?

Yes. Presence samples ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Claude and Grok start on Authority.

Start here

Check the answer, not just the ranking.

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