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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur, Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez?

clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France, recording 13.15% AI opening share on this market across the 6-run observation period from August 24–30, 2026.

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Market
Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur
Location
Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez
Observed period
August 24–30, 2026
Run type
Period run · 6 comparable runs
Queries
104 queries per run
Search engine
Google
Device
Desktop
Source location
France
Reading
Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On the Côte d'Azur luxury yachting AI opening-control rail, the top-10 panel is fragmented — no actor has built authority across the 6-run window.”

Quick answer

clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France, recording 13.15% AI opening share on this market across the 6-run observation period from August 24–30, 2026.

Key reading

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026

clickandboat.com accumulated the highest AI opening share on this market over the 6-run window at 13.15%, but the panel behind it is compressed: the 9 sources behind clickandboat.com range from 10.80% down to 4.69%. arthaudyachting.com sits 2.35 percentage points behind clickandboat.com on AI opening share on this market, while samboat.fr and Burgess Yachts follow closely at 9.86% and 9.39% respectively. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, confirming that the AI opening-control surface for Côte d'Azur luxury yachting is dispersed rather than concentrated. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 5 of 6 runs in the comparable window; one run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitors.

Core metric

AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026

Observed metric

AIO opening control — top 10

August 24–30, 2026104 queries per run6 comparable runs
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · August 24–30, 2026 · 6 comparable runs · AI Overview · 10 ranked rows
ActorRankAIO opening sharePresence
clickandboat.com#113.15% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
arthaudyachting.com#210.80% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
samboat.fr#39.86% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
Burgess Yachts#49.39% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
instagram.com#59.39% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
Fraser Yachts#67.51% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
abys-yachting.com#75.63% AI opening shareopening in 4/6 runs
facebook.com#85.63% AI opening shareopening in 4/6 runs
excellenceriviera.com#95.16% AI opening shareopening in 5/6 runs
internationalyachtscharterandbrokerage.com#104.69% AI opening shareopening in 4/6 runs
How to read this tableThese three measures describe how prominently actors appear at the beginning of Google's AI Overview answers. Each should be read separately.Rank — The actor's position based on its total number of recorded opening appearances during the period.AIO opening share — The actor's percentage of recorded openings among the sources included in the measurement.Presence — The number of comparable daily observations in which the actor appeared at least once in an AI Overview opening.For a full explanation of how these rankings are calculated, see Method & Standards.Reading basis. This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France on Google desktop across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The governed top-10 panel is ranked by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 5 of 6 runs; one run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitors. Aggregated metric values are computed from the 5 runs with available evidence. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market.Read with how readings are scoped and run metadata · what this card does not claim.Produced using AI and automated checks. See methodology.

How the actors read on the surface

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026

clickandboat.com

clickandboat.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 13.15%. It opened AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, placing it at the top of a panel where no actor opened AI answers in all 6 comparable runs.

arthaudyachting.com

arthaudyachting.com records 10.80% AI opening share on this market and sits 2.35 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, making it the closest pursuer on the opening-control rail across this window.

samboat.fr

samboat.fr records 9.86% AI opening share on this market, sitting 3.29 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, occupying a position in the compressed middle of the panel.

Burgess Yachts

Burgess Yachts records 9.39% AI opening share on this market and sits 3.76 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, sharing the same display value as instagram.com on this metric while holding a distinct governed rank.

instagram.com

instagram.com, a social platform, records 9.39% AI opening share on this market — the same displayed value as Burgess Yachts — and sits 3.76 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, the only social platform in the upper portion of the panel.

Fraser Yachts

Fraser Yachts records 7.51% AI opening share on this market and sits 5.63 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, positioned in the mid-panel zone between the compressed top cluster and the lower tier.

abys-yachting.com

abys-yachting.com records 5.63% AI opening share on this market and sits 7.51 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 4 of 6 comparable runs, a lower presence frequency than the actors ranked above it.

facebook.com

facebook.com, a social platform, records 5.63% AI opening share on this market — the same displayed value as abys-yachting.com — and sits 7.51 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 4 of 6 comparable runs.

excellenceriviera.com

excellenceriviera.com records 5.16% AI opening share on this market and sits 7.98 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. Despite opening AI answers on 5 of 6 comparable runs, its cumulative opening volume places it near the bottom of the governed panel.

internationalyachtscharterandbrokerage.com

internationalyachtscharterandbrokerage.com records 4.69% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed top-10 panel, and sits 8.45 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 4 of 6 comparable runs.

Pattern on the observed surface

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026

The opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur is

The opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur is dispersed. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the spread between rank 1 and rank 10 is 8.45 percentage points — a gap that is real but narrow enough to keep the entire panel within competitive range. Two social platforms — instagram.com and facebook.com — appear alongside niche domains and focused sources, giving the surface a mixed composition. None of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 6 comparable runs, reinforcing the picture of a surface where no single source has accumulated a commanding opening position across the window.

Why this reading matters

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026

clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail, yet the panel's fragmentation means the opening slot is contested across a wide field of niche domains and social platforms. The presence of instagram.com and facebook.com in the governed top 10 signals that AI Overviews on this market draw opening sources from user-generated and social content, not only from focused yachting domains.

Market implication

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026

The fragmented shape of the AI opening-control panel across the 6-run window signals that no actor has built established authority on this observed AI Overview surface for Côte d'Azur luxury yachting queries. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is compressed at 8.45 percentage points. For any actor monitoring AI visibility on this market, the observation suggests that the opening-control surface remains open and unsettled across the window.

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Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez
Surface:
AI Overview · Google · Desktop
Observed:
August 24–30, 2026
Published:
September 1, 2026

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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur, Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez?

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Scope: Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · Google · Desktop
Family: Ranking Top 10
Observed: August 24–30, 2026 (2026-08-24/2026-08-30)
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clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France, recording 13.15% AI opening share on this market across the 6-run observation period from August 24–30, 2026.

Key facts:
• clickandboat.com: 13% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs
• arthaudyachting.com: 11% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs
• samboat.fr: 10% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs

Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (August 24–30, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 6 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control
1. clickandboat.com — 13.15% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #1
2. arthaudyachting.com — 10.80% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #2
3. samboat.fr — 9.86% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #3
4. Burgess Yachts — 9.39% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #4
5. instagram.com — 9.39% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #5
6. Fraser Yachts — 7.51% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #6
7. abys-yachting.com — 5.63% AI opening share · opening in 4/6 runs — #7
8. facebook.com — 5.63% AI opening share · opening in 4/6 runs — #8
9. excellenceriviera.com — 5.16% AI opening share · opening in 5/6 runs — #9
10. internationalyachtscharterandbrokerage.com — 4.69% AI opening share · opening in 4/6 runs — #10

Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France on Google desktop across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The governed top-10 panel is ranked by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 5 of 6 runs; one run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitors. Aggregated metric values are computed from the 5 runs with available evidence. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market.

Limitations and non-claims:
— Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window.
— A period aggregate (6 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
— Scoped to Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

— The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · August 24–30, 2026
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Cite: According to The Observatory (September 1, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur, Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-cannes-antibes-saint-tropez-ai-overview-control-august-24-30-2026

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— The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · August 24–30, 2026

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FAQ

What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
It measures which actor AI Overviews reach for first when opening an answer to a query in this market. It is not general citation share and it is not organic search ranking — it reads only the primacy slot of AI-generated answers.
Why was AI Overview opening-control evidence available on only 5 of 6 runs?
One run in the window — August 27, 2026 — returned no AI Overview source competitors, meaning either no AI Overview surface appeared or it appeared without source citations on that run. The aggregated values on this card are computed from the 5 runs with available evidence.
Does this card establish a longer-term trend for any actor?
This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates. The card reads an observation period of 6 comparable scheduled runs and reports the cumulative opening share observed across that window.

Scope and limitations

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · August 24–30, 2026 · what this card does not claim

  • Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window.
  • A period aggregate (6 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
  • Scoped to Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

Method & source

This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France on Google desktop across 6 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 24–30, 2026. The governed top-10 panel is ranked by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, aggregated from 104 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 5 of 6 runs; one run on August 27, 2026 returned no AI Overview source competitors. Aggregated metric values are computed from the 5 runs with available evidence. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market.

The complete methodology — scope, panels, run conditions and corrections — is set out on the Method page.

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Period observation across 6 comparable scheduled runs in an observation period. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 5 of 6 runs. This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. No claim about general citation share or organic visibility.

A capture from AAI Kernel’s governed intelligence — published by The Observatory. One reading of many; the publication date is distinct from the observed window shown above.Published 2026-09-01 · Governed capture ID · pr_1788095234686_4sm1bw

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