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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Yachting Thailand, Phuket / Koh Samui?
YachtCharterFleet holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Yachting Thailand market at 12.62%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 3–9, 2026.
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- Market
- Luxury Yachting Thailand
- Location
- Phuket / Koh Samui
- Observed period
- August 3–9, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 105 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- Thailand
- Reading
- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“Ten domains contest the AI opening slot for Luxury Yachting Thailand — and none has broken away across seven daily runs.”
Quick answer
asiaglobalyachting.com follows at 11.86%, sitting 0.76 percentage points behind on the same surface.
Key reading
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 2026
YachtCharterFleet leads the AI Overview opening-control rail at 12.62%, but the margin over asiaglobalyachting.com is just 0.76 percentage points — a gap small enough that the primacy position remains structurally contested across the 7-run window of August 3–9, 2026. The spread from top to bottom of the panel is 5.68 percentage points, and the top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, confirming a distributed surface rather than a concentrated one. No movement toward established authority was detected in any topic area across all 7 runs — the competitive positions observed at the start of the window held flat through the end. The result is a panel where AI Overview opening behavior scatters across niche domains rather than locking onto a single source.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| YachtCharterFleet | #1 | 12.62% AI opening share | seen 7 of 7 runs |
| asiaglobalyachting.com | #2 | 11.86% AI opening share | seen 7 of 7 runs |
| Blue Voyage Thailand | #3 | 9.88% AI opening share | seen 7 of 7 runs |
| yacht-rental-phuket.com | #4 | 9.75% AI opening share | seen 7 of 7 runs |
| Faraway Yachting | #5 | 9.27% AI opening share | seen 7 of 7 runs |
| Simpson Yacht Charter / Simpson Marine | #6 | 7.56% AI opening share | seen 3 of 7 runs |
| youtube.com | #7 | 7.48% AI opening share | seen 6 of 7 runs |
| Northrop & Johnson | #8 | 7.25% AI opening share | seen 6 of 7 runs |
| Fraser Yachts | #9 | 7.15% AI opening share | seen 4 of 7 runs |
| Burgess Yachts | #10 | 6.94% AI opening share | seen 6 of 7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 2026
YachtCharterFleet holds the strongest AI opening share on this market at 12.62%, appearing in 7 of 7 comparable runs. Its position at the top of the opening-control rail is consistent across the window, though the margin it holds is narrow enough to leave the primacy slot structurally open.
asiaglobalyachting.com records 11.86% AI opening share and appeared in 7 of 7 comparable runs. It sits 0.76 percentage points behind YachtCharterFleet on AI opening share on this market — the tightest gap between any two adjacent actors on this panel.
Blue Voyage Thailand records 9.88% AI opening share, present in 7 of 7 comparable runs. It sits 2.74 percentage points behind YachtCharterFleet on AI opening share on this market, placing it in the mid-tier of a tightly packed surface.
yacht-rental-phuket.com records 9.75% AI opening share and appeared in 7 of 7 comparable runs. Its mean share sits close to Blue Voyage Thailand, reinforcing the compressed middle of this opening-control panel.
Faraway Yachting records 9.27% AI opening share across 7 of 7 comparable runs. It occupies the fifth position on this panel, separated from the rank-1 actor by a modest gap on a surface where the entire field clusters within 5.68 percentage points.
Simpson Yacht Charter / Simpson Marine
Simpson Yacht Charter / Simpson Marine records 7.56% AI opening share but appeared in only 3 of 7 comparable runs. Its intermittent presence on this surface distinguishes it from the five actors that appeared in every run.
youtube.com is the only platform on this panel, recording 7.48% AI opening share across 6 of 7 comparable runs. Its presence signals that AI Overview answers occasionally reach for a general-purpose platform rather than a specialist domain when opening answers on this market.
Northrop & Johnson records 7.25% AI opening share, appearing in 6 of 7 comparable runs. It occupies a position on the AI Overview opening-control panel for this market in the lower tier of the observed surface.
Fraser Yachts records 7.15% AI opening share and appeared in 4 of 7 comparable runs. Its lower presence frequency places it among the less consistently surfaced actors on this opening-control rail.
Burgess Yachts records 6.94% AI opening share, the lowest on this panel, across 6 of 7 comparable runs. Despite sitting at the bottom of the top-10, it is only 5.68 percentage points behind the rank-1 actor — a gap that underscores how compressed this surface is.
Pattern on the observed surface
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 2026
The panel is notably flat
The panel is notably flat. A spread of 5.68 percentage points separates the rank-1 actor from the rank-10 actor, and the top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined. This is a distributed surface, not a concentrated one. Five actors appeared in all 7 comparable runs, forming a stable core, while the remaining five showed varying presence frequencies — from 6 of 7 runs down to 3 of 7 runs. The single platform on the panel, youtube.com, sits mid-table, suggesting AI Overview opening behavior on this market overwhelmingly favors specialist or niche domains over general-purpose platforms.
Why this reading matters
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 2026
YachtCharterFleet holds the top position on this opening-control rail, yet the competitive positions observed at the start of the window held flat through the end — no actor converted visibility into breakaway authority across any of the topic areas tracked. The surface remains unsettled, and the primacy slot is shared across a rotating cast of niche domains rather than locked by a single source.
Market implication
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 2026
All 7 topic areas tracked in this market remain unsettled — no actor has converted its visibility into established authority in any of them over the observed window. This observation suggests that AI Overview opening behavior on Luxury Yachting Thailand queries is still in flux, distributing the primacy slot across multiple niche domains rather than consolidating around a single source. For any actor monitoring this surface, the compressed panel and flat competitive positions signal that the opening-control rail is open to shifts with each new observation cycle.
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- Observed:
- August 3–9, 2026
- Published:
- August 11, 2026
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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Yachting Thailand, Phuket / Koh Samui? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-ai-overview-control-august-3-9-2026 Scope: Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: August 3–9, 2026 (2026-08-03/2026-08-09) Published: August 11, 2026 Method — How readings are scoped: https://theobservatory.io/method#standards Method — Run metadata: https://theobservatory.io/method/panel#run-metadata Method — Source protocol: https://theobservatory.io/method#source-protocol Method — Corrections and right of reply: https://theobservatory.io/method#corrections Public table: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-ai-overview-control-august-3-9-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-ai-overview-control-august-3-9-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms YachtCharterFleet holds the strongest AI opening share on the Luxury Yachting Thailand market at 12.62%, observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 3–9, 2026. Key facts: • YachtCharterFleet: seen 7 of 7 runs · 13% AI opening share • asiaglobalyachting.com: seen 7 of 7 runs · 12% AI opening share • Blue Voyage Thailand: seen 7 of 7 runs · 10% AI opening share Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (August 3–9, 2026 · 105 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. YachtCharterFleet — seen 7 of 7 runs · 12.62% AI opening share — #1 2. asiaglobalyachting.com — seen 7 of 7 runs · 11.86% AI opening share — #2 3. Blue Voyage Thailand — seen 7 of 7 runs · 9.88% AI opening share — #3 4. yacht-rental-phuket.com — seen 7 of 7 runs · 9.75% AI opening share — #4 5. Faraway Yachting — seen 7 of 7 runs · 9.27% AI opening share — #5 6. Simpson Yacht Charter / Simpson Marine — seen 3 of 7 runs · 7.56% AI opening share — #6 7. youtube.com — seen 6 of 7 runs · 7.48% AI opening share — #7 8. Northrop & Johnson — seen 6 of 7 runs · 7.25% AI opening share — #8 9. Fraser Yachts — seen 4 of 7 runs · 7.15% AI opening share — #9 10. Burgess Yachts — seen 6 of 7 runs · 6.94% AI opening share — #10 Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Thailand in Thailand on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 3–9, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by mean AI opening share on this market, aggregated from 105 observed queries per run. 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 Thailand Phuket / Koh Samui, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · August 3–9, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1786248592789_n4tc1w. Cite freely with attribution. Published by The Observatory. Source footnote: 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. Attribution: Published by The Observatory · Based on an AAI Kernel capture · governed by The Observatory editorial system Cite: According to The Observatory (August 11, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Luxury Yachting Thailand, Phuket / Koh Samui?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/luxury-yacht-charter-phuket-koh-samui-ai-overview-control-august-3-9-2026 This record is the published reading and its public table/slice as served on the card — not the complete underlying capture or provider dataset. Observed by The Observatory. Not an endorsement, recommendation, market-share claim or commercial ranking. Free reuse, including commercial republication, under The Observatory’s Terms. Retain attribution, source link, scope and date. Revision: 62c0121f7675ff59
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FAQ
- What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
- It measures how often a given actor is cited at the very opening of AI Overview answers across the market's observed query set. It captures the primacy slot — who AI reaches for first — not general citation frequency or organic search ranking.
- What does this card prove and what does it not prove?
- This card proves which actors AI Overviews reached for first when opening answers to 105 Luxury Yachting Thailand queries, aggregated across 7 comparable scheduled runs from August 3–9, 2026. It does not prove business-market leadership, organic search ranking, or any multi-month trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile by nature, and a different window may produce a different panel.
- Why do some actors appear in fewer runs than others?
- AI Overview opening behavior can vary from run to run. Some actors appeared in all 7 of 7 comparable runs, while others appeared in as few as 3 of 7 comparable runs. The mean AI opening share for each actor is calculated only across the runs where that actor was present.
Scope and limitations
Luxury Yachting Thailand · Phuket / Koh Samui · AI Overview · August 3–9, 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 Thailand Phuket / Koh Samui, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.
Method & source
This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Luxury Yachting Thailand in Thailand on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 3–9, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by mean AI opening share on this market, aggregated from 105 observed queries per run. 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.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs, August 3–9, 2026. AI Overview opening-control evidence available on 7 of 7 runs. No multi-month aggregation. 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 2026-08-11 · Governed capture ID · pr_1786248592789_n4tc1w
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Method & SourceContinue the reading
The Luxury Yachting Thailand room places this AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.
For the same observation window, August 3–9, 2026, Luxury Yachting Thailand 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.
The Amalfi / Capri / Positano reading and Athens / Mykonos / Santorini / Corfu reading examine the same AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 for August 3–9, 2026; compare the stated reading bases before drawing a cross-market conclusion.
