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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education France /, Paris?
youtube.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Paris across the 7-run window August 10–16, 2026, with 19.16% AI opening share on this market.
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- Market
- Premium Education France /
- Location
- Paris
- Observed period
- August 10–16, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 105 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- France
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- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On Premium Education France, the AI opening-control surface splits across platforms and focused domains with no settled primacy.”
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youtube.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Paris across the 7-run window August 10–16, 2026, with 19.16% AI opening share on this market.
Key reading
Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 2026
youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 19.16%, across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 10–16, 2026. Ministère de l Éducation nationale sits 3.74 percentage points behind youtube.com on AI opening share on this market, recording 15.42%. letudiant.fr and etudiant.lefigaro.fr follow at 11.21% and 10.75% respectively, each sitting within 8.41 percentage points of the rank-1 actor. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, yet no single actor commands a decisive share — the opening-control rail for this market is contested rather than concentrated around one source.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | #1 | 19.16% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Ministère de l Éducation nationale | #2 | 15.42% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| letudiant.fr | #3 | 11.21% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| etudiant.lefigaro.fr | #4 | 10.75% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| fr.wikipedia.org | #5 | 7.01% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| groupe-reussite.fr | #6 | 5.14% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| world-schools.com | #7 | 4.67% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| eduscol.education.gouv.fr | #8 | 4.67% AI opening share | opening in 4/7 runs |
| icsparis.fr | #9 | 4.21% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| edhec.edu | #10 | 3.74% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 2026
youtube.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 19.16%. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, making it one of 5 actors on the panel to open AI answers in all 7 comparable runs. As a general-purpose platform, its rank-1 position on this opening-control rail means AI reaches for video content first on a significant portion of this market's education queries.
Ministère de l Éducation nationale
Ministère de l Éducation nationale records 15.42% AI opening share on this market and sits 3.74 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. Its position as the rank-2 actor on this opening-control rail places it as the highest-ranked focused source on the panel.
letudiant.fr records 11.21% AI opening share on this market, sitting 7.94 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. Its rank-3 position on this rail anchors the mid-panel cluster of focused education domains.
etudiant.lefigaro.fr records 10.75% AI opening share on this market and sits 8.41 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs. The gap between etudiant.lefigaro.fr and letudiant.fr is narrow — the two domains sit close together on the opening-control rail.
fr.wikipedia.org records 7.01% AI opening share on this market and sits 12.15 percentage points behind youtube.com. As a general-purpose platform, it opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs — one fewer than the top four actors on the panel.
groupe-reussite.fr records 5.14% AI opening share on this market and sits 14.02 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs. Its position in the lower half of the panel places it among the focused domains with limited but measurable opening presence.
world-schools.com records 4.67% AI opening share on this market and sits 14.49 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs, one of the lower presence frequencies on the governed panel.
eduscol.education.gouv.fr records 4.67% AI opening share on this market — identical to world-schools.com — and sits 14.49 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 4 of 7 comparable runs, the lowest presence frequency on the governed panel.
icsparis.fr records 4.21% AI opening share on this market and sits 14.95 percentage points behind youtube.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs. Its position near the bottom of the panel reflects a narrow but recurring opening presence across the window.
edhec.edu records 3.74% AI opening share on this market and sits 15.42 percentage points behind youtube.com. Despite holding the rank-10 position, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs — one of 5 actors on the panel to open AI answers in all 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 2026
The opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Pari
The opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Paris is top-heavy but not dominated. The top 3 actors together hold more than the remaining 7 combined, yet the rank-1 actor's share sits at 19.16% — far from a majority. The 9 sources behind youtube.com range from 15.42% down to 3.74%. The panel mixes two general-purpose platforms (youtube.com and fr.wikipedia.org) with focused education domains. 5 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 5 opened AI answers in fewer runs, suggesting the lower half of the panel carries intermittent opening presence while the upper ranks show more consistent signal.
Why this reading matters
Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 2026
youtube.com's rank-1 position on this opening-control rail is structurally notable: a video platform, not an education-focused domain, is the source AI reaches for first when opening answers on Premium Education France queries. The rank-2 actor, Ministère de l Éducation nationale, is the highest-ranked focused source — yet it sits 3.74 percentage points behind a general-purpose platform. The surface reads as one where AI draws on format diversity (video, institutional, editorial) rather than converging on a single source type.
Market implication
Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 2026
The AI Overview opening-control surface for French premium education queries is wide open over the observed period. The rank-1 actor holds 19.16% of accumulated openings, and the spread across the governed top-10 panel is 15.42 percentage points. This observation signals that no single source has consolidated the AI primacy slot on this market across the 7-run window — the opening rail distributes across platforms and focused domains alike, and any actor monitoring its AI opening visibility on this market faces a contested, distributed surface.
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- Observed:
- August 10–16, 2026
- Published:
- August 18, 2026
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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education France /, Paris? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-paris-ai-overview-control-august-10-16-2026 Scope: Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: August 10–16, 2026 (2026-08-10/2026-08-16) Published: August 18, 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/premium-education-paris-ai-overview-control-august-10-16-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-paris-ai-overview-control-august-10-16-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms youtube.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Paris across the 7-run window August 10–16, 2026, with 19.16% AI opening share on this market. Key facts: • youtube.com: 19% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • Ministère de l Éducation nationale: 15% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • letudiant.fr: 11% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (August 10–16, 2026 · 105 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. youtube.com — 19.16% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. Ministère de l Éducation nationale — 15.42% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. letudiant.fr — 11.21% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. etudiant.lefigaro.fr — 10.75% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. fr.wikipedia.org — 7.01% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #5 6. groupe-reussite.fr — 5.14% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #6 7. world-schools.com — 4.67% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #7 8. eduscol.education.gouv.fr — 4.67% AI opening share · opening in 4/7 runs — #8 9. icsparis.fr — 4.21% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #9 10. edhec.edu — 3.74% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #10 Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Paris in France on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 10–16, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative 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 window. 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 (7 comparable runs) — not a claim about bookings, revenue, or market share. — Scoped to Premium Education France / Paris, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · August 10–16, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1787891973214_wvqp5h. 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 18, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education France /, Paris?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-paris-ai-overview-control-august-10-16-2026 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: c8473a4e5c155f5e
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- What does 'AI opening share on this market' measure?
- It measures how often a given source is cited at the very opening of an AI Overview answer — the first source AI reaches for when constructing its response. This is distinct from general citation share, which counts all citations regardless of position.
- Does this card prove a longer-term trend in AI opening behavior?
- This observation does not establish a longer-term trend. It aggregates 7 comparable scheduled runs across August 10–16, 2026. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates; future windows may produce different results.
- How were the period values calculated?
- Each actor's AI opening share is the sum of its opening values across all 7 comparable runs in the window, divided by one single period-wide denominator. The panel is ranked by cumulative opening volume over the period, not by an average of daily values. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs.
Scope and limitations
Premium Education France / · Paris · AI Overview · August 10–16, 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 Premium Education France / Paris, August 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.
Method & source
This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education France / Paris in France on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period August 10–16, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative 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 window. The primary metric is AI opening share on this market.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs, August 10–16, 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 2026-08-18 · Governed capture ID · pr_1787891973214_wvqp5h
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The Premium Education France / Paris room places this AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.
For the same observation window, August 10–16, 2026, Premium Education France / Paris 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 San Francisco Bay Area / Los Angeles reading and Singapore reading examine the same AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 for August 10–16, 2026; compare the stated reading bases before drawing a cross-market conclusion.
