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

Across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026, clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France, recording 18.33% AI opening share on this market.

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Market
Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur
Location
Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez
Observed period
September 7–13, 2026
Run type
Period run · 7 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 contested and no actor has locked the primacy slot.”

Quick answer

Across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026, clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France, recording 18.33% AI opening share on this market.

Key reading

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · September 7–13, 2026

clickandboat.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 18.33%, observed across the 7-run observation period September 7–13, 2026. samboat.fr sits 4.33 percentage points behind clickandboat.com on AI opening share on this market, recording 14.00%. arthaudyachting.com records 12.33%, and the top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined. The AI-answer opening layer on this Côte d'Azur luxury yacht market remains unsettled across the 7-run window — no name on the governed top-10 panel has locked down authority on this observed AI Overview surface. The spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is 15.33 percentage points, with the 9 sources behind clickandboat.com ranging from 14.00% down to 3.00%.

Core metric

AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · September 7–13, 2026

Observed metric

AIO opening control — top 10

September 7–13, 2026104 queries per run7 comparable runs
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · September 7–13, 2026 · 7 comparable runs · AI Overview · 10 ranked rows
ActorRankAIO opening sharePresence
clickandboat.com#118.33% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
samboat.fr#214.00% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
arthaudyachting.com#312.33% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
excellenceriviera.com#49.00% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
Fraser Yachts#57.00% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
Y.CO#67.00% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
Burgess Yachts#76.67% AI opening shareopening in 5/7 runs
instagram.com#83.67% AI opening shareopening in 7/7 runs
youtube.com#93.67% AI opening shareopening in 6/7 runs
facebook.com#103.00% AI opening shareopening in 6/7 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 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026. The governed top-10 panel is ranked by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, with per-actor shares calculated on one single period-wide denominator. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. The panel was derived from 104 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.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 · September 7–13, 2026

clickandboat.com

clickandboat.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 18.33%. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs across the September 7–13, 2026 window.

samboat.fr

samboat.fr records 14.00% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.33 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, matching the rank-1 actor on presence frequency across the window.

arthaudyachting.com

arthaudyachting.com records 12.33% AI opening share on this market, sitting 6.00 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs across the September 7–13, 2026 window.

excellenceriviera.com

excellenceriviera.com records 9.00% AI opening share on this market. It sits 9.33 percentage points behind clickandboat.com and opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.

Fraser Yachts

Fraser Yachts records 7.00% AI opening share on this market, sitting 11.33 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs across the observed window.

Y.CO

Y.CO records 7.00% AI opening share on this market — the same displayed value as Fraser Yachts. Y.CO opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs across the window.

Burgess Yachts

Burgess Yachts records 6.67% AI opening share on this market and sits 11.67 percentage points behind clickandboat.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs — one of the three actors on the panel with fewer than full presence across the window.

instagram.com

instagram.com is a social platform on this panel, recording 3.67% AI opening share on this market. It sits 14.67 percentage points behind clickandboat.com yet opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.

youtube.com

youtube.com, also a social platform, records 3.67% AI opening share on this market. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs, placing it among the three actors with fewer-than-full presence across the window.

facebook.com

facebook.com records 3.00% AI opening share on this market — the lowest on the governed top-10 panel. It sits 15.33 percentage points behind clickandboat.com and opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.

Pattern on the observed surface

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · September 7–13, 2026

The panel is top-heavy but not dominated by a single source

The panel is top-heavy but not dominated by a single source. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, yet the rank-1 share is 18.33% — a plurality, not a majority. The 9 sources behind clickandboat.com range from 14.00% down to 3.00%, producing a gradual slope rather than a sharp cliff. Three social platforms — instagram.com, youtube.com, and facebook.com — occupy the bottom of the panel, each recording between 3.00% and 3.67%. The mix of focused domains and general-purpose platforms on this surface signals that AI Overview opening behavior on this market draws from a diverse source pool rather than a narrow specialist cluster.

Why this reading matters

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · September 7–13, 2026

clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail, yet the opening surface on this Côte d'Azur luxury yachting market remains unsettled across the 7-run window — no actor on the governed panel has locked down authority on this observed AI Overview surface. The presence of three social platforms in the bottom tier, each with low opening share but full or near-full presence frequency, suggests AI Overview answers on this market reach beyond specialist domains when selecting an opening source.

Market implication

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · September 7–13, 2026

The AI-answer opening layer on this Côte d'Azur luxury yacht market is wide open — as observed across these 7 runs, no name on the governed panel has established meaningful authority on AI-generated opening responses on this surface. The spread of 15.33 percentage points from rank 1 to rank 10 and the absence of any single actor capturing a majority of openings suggest that the AI opening-control rail for this market remains a contested surface worth monitoring across future windows.

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Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez
Surface:
AI Overview · Google · Desktop
Observed:
September 7–13, 2026
Published:
September 15, 2026

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

Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-cannes-antibes-saint-tropez-ai-overview-control-september-7-13-2026
Scope: Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · Google · Desktop
Family: Ranking Top 10
Observed: September 7–13, 2026 (2026-09-07/2026-09-13)
Published: September 15, 2026
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Across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026, clickandboat.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur in France, recording 18.33% AI opening share on this market.

Key facts:
• clickandboat.com: 18% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs
• samboat.fr: 14% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs
• arthaudyachting.com: 12% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs

Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (September 7–13, 2026 · 104 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control
1. clickandboat.com — 18.33% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1
2. samboat.fr — 14.00% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2
3. arthaudyachting.com — 12.33% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3
4. excellenceriviera.com — 9.00% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4
5. Fraser Yachts — 7.00% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #5
6. Y.CO — 7.00% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #6
7. Burgess Yachts — 6.67% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #7
8. instagram.com — 3.67% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #8
9. youtube.com — 3.67% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #9
10. facebook.com — 3.00% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 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 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026. The governed top-10 panel is ranked by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, with per-actor shares calculated on one single period-wide denominator. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. The panel was derived from 104 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.

Limitations and non-claims:
— Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window.
— A period aggregate (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
— Scoped to Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez, September 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.

— The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · September 7–13, 2026
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Cite: According to The Observatory (September 15, 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-september-7-13-2026

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— The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · September 7–13, 2026

Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier pr_1789304818019_2qurh2. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory.

FAQ

What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
It measures which actor AI Overviews reach for first when opening an answer to this market's queries. It captures the primacy slot — who opens the AI answer — not general citation share and not organic search ranking.
Does this card prove a longer-term trend on this market?
No. This observation covers 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026. It does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates; future windows may produce different results.
Why do Fraser Yachts and Y.CO both show 7.00% but hold different ranks?
Their displayed AI opening share values are identical at 7.00%. The governed tie-break ordering assigns Fraser Yachts to rank 5 and Y.CO to rank 6. The two actors are tied on the metric but hold distinct governed ranks.

Scope and limitations

Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur · Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez · AI Overview · September 7–13, 2026 · what this card does not claim

  • Observes the observed AI answer surface only; within a defined scope and window.
  • A period aggregate (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share.
  • Scoped to Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur Cannes / Antibes / Saint-Tropez, September 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 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 7–13, 2026. The governed top-10 panel is ranked by cumulative AI opening volume over the period, with per-actor shares calculated on one single period-wide denominator. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market. The panel was derived from 104 observed queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the comparable window.

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

Source protocol · How readings are scoped · Run metadata · Corrections

Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs, September 7–13, 2026. AI Overview opening-control evidence available on 7 of 7 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 2026-09-15 · Governed capture ID · pr_1789304818019_2qurh2

Sourced from a published AAI MIB card. The Observatory publishes this card’s public findings; values are as observed on the search surface, not business-market claims.

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The Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur room places this AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.

For the same observation window, September 7–13, 2026, Luxury Yachting Côte d'Azur is also read in the AI Citation Ranking — Top 5 table, the Organic Ranking — Top 5 table and the Query Spotlight table; each keeps its own reading basis.

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