— Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview —
Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education, Singapore?
skoolopedia.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Premium Education Singapore market across the 7-run window (September 14–20, 2026), at 10.77%.
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- Market
- Premium Education
- Location
- Singapore
- Observed period
- September 14–20, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 10-actor panel
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- Singapore
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- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On Singapore's premium education surface, no single source controls the AI opening slot — the top-10 panel is fragmented and contested.”
Quick answer
facebook.com follows at 10.50%, just 0.28 percentage points behind.
Key reading
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
skoolopedia.com holds the rank-1 position on the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education Singapore by cumulative opening volume over the September 14–20, 2026 window, at 10.77%. The surface is fragmented: the top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the 9 sources behind skoolopedia.com range from 10.50% down to 5.52%. The panel mixes focused domains — skoolopedia.com, globalindianschool.org, whichschooladvisor.com, goodschoolsguide.co.uk, topuniversities.com, executive-education.nus.edu.sg — with social platforms facebook.com, youtube.com, and reddit.com. These findings are drawn from 7 observation runs — enough to map the current competitive shape, but not yet enough to confirm whether these positions are structurally stable over time.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| skoolopedia.com | #1 | 10.77% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| facebook.com | #2 | 10% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| youtube.com | #3 | 8.29% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Australian International School Singapore | #4 | 7.46% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| globalindianschool.org | #5 | 7.46% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| reddit.com | #6 | 7.18% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| whichschooladvisor.com | #7 | 6.63% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| goodschoolsguide.co.uk | #8 | 6.08% AI opening share | opening in 5/7 runs |
| topuniversities.com | #9 | 5.80% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| executive-education.nus.edu.sg | #10 | 5.52% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
skoolopedia.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 10.77%. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, and is one of 6 actors on the panel to do so — yet its cumulative lead over the rank-2 actor is only 0.28 percentage points.
facebook.com records 10.50% AI opening share on this market, sitting 0.28 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. As a social platform rather than a focused education source, its presence at rank 2 on this opening-control rail — opening AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs — signals that AI reaches for user-generated discussion content at the opening of education queries in Singapore.
youtube.com records 8.29% AI opening share on this market and sits 2.49 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. Another social platform, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, occupying the rank-3 position by cumulative opening volume over the period.
Australian International School Singapore
Australian International School Singapore records 7.46% AI opening share on this market and sits 3.31 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs — one of 6 actors on the panel to appear across every run in the window.
globalindianschool.org records 7.46% AI opening share on this market, matching Australian International School Singapore on the primary metric while sitting 3.31 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
reddit.com records 7.18% AI opening share on this market and sits 3.59 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. A discussion platform, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs — placing it among the most frequently appearing sources on this opening-control rail across the window.
whichschooladvisor.com records 6.63% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.14 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, anchoring the lower-mid section of the governed panel.
goodschoolsguide.co.uk records 6.08% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.70 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. It opened AI answers on 5 of 7 comparable runs — one of the less frequently appearing sources on the panel.
topuniversities.com records 5.80% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.97 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
executive-education.nus.edu.sg
executive-education.nus.edu.sg records 5.52% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed top-10 panel, and sits 5.25 percentage points behind skoolopedia.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
The opening-control rail for Premium Education Singapore is
The opening-control rail for Premium Education Singapore is dispersed. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the full spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is 5.25 percentage points. The panel splits between focused education-oriented domains and general-purpose social platforms: facebook.com, youtube.com, and reddit.com collectively occupy three of the top six positions by cumulative opening volume. 6 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 4 opened AI answers in fewer runs. The surface shape is compressed and contested — no single source type or actor class controls the opening slot.
Why this reading matters
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
skoolopedia.com holds the rank-1 position on this opening-control rail, yet the presence of three social platforms in the top six positions is structurally notable: when AI answers premium education queries in Singapore, it reaches for user-generated discussion content nearly as often as it reaches for focused education sources. The opening rail does not mirror what a reader might expect from a specialist education market.
Market implication
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 2026
The fragmentation of this opening-control surface means that no single source has accumulated a decisive opening position on AI answers for premium education queries in Singapore across the 7-run window. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the gap between rank 1 and rank 10 is only 5.25 percentage points. For any actor monitoring its AI visibility on this market, the observation signals that the opening slot is contested and distributed — positions on this surface are tightly packed and not entrenched across these 7 runs.
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- Observed:
- September 14–20, 2026
- Published:
- September 22, 2026
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Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education, Singapore? Source: https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-singapore-ai-overview-control-september-14-20-2026 Scope: Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: September 14–20, 2026 (2026-09-14/2026-09-20) Published: September 22, 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-singapore-ai-overview-control-september-14-20-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-singapore-ai-overview-control-september-14-20-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms skoolopedia.com holds the strongest AI opening share on the Premium Education Singapore market across the 7-run window (September 14–20, 2026), at 10.77%. Key facts: • skoolopedia.com: 11% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • facebook.com: 10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • youtube.com: 8% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (September 14–20, 2026 · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. skoolopedia.com — 10.77% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. facebook.com — 10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. youtube.com — 8.29% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. Australian International School Singapore — 7.46% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. globalindianschool.org — 7.46% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #5 6. reddit.com — 7.18% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #6 7. whichschooladvisor.com — 6.63% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #7 8. goodschoolsguide.co.uk — 6.08% AI opening share · opening in 5/7 runs — #8 9. topuniversities.com — 5.80% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #9 10. executive-education.nus.edu.sg — 5.52% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #10 Reading basis: This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education Singapore in Singapore on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 14–20, 2026. Per-actor AI opening share values are aggregated as the sum of each actor's opening citations across all 7 comparable runs, divided by one single period-wide denominator. The panel ranks the top 10 actors by cumulative opening volume over the period. The observation covers 105 queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the 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 Premium Education Singapore, September 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window. — The Observatory · Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · Google · Desktop · September 14–20, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1789869007280_xyo1w9. 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 (September 22, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education, Singapore?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-singapore-ai-overview-control-september-14-20-2026 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: 055948136dbc74dd
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FAQ
- What does 'AI opening share' measure?
- AI opening share measures how often a given source is cited at the very opening of an AI Overview answer — the first source AI reaches for when answering a query. It is distinct from general citation share (which counts all citations across the full AI Overview) and from organic search ranking.
- Does this card prove a longer-term trend in AI opening behavior?
- No. This observation covers 7 comparable scheduled runs in the September 14–20, 2026 window. It maps the current competitive shape on this surface but does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates.
- Why do social platforms appear so prominently on an education market's opening-control rail?
- This card observes what AI Overview answers actually cite at the opening, not what a human editor might expect. facebook.com, youtube.com, and reddit.com each accumulated enough opening citations across 105 queries over 7 runs to rank in the top 6 by cumulative opening volume. The card does not explain why AI selects these sources — it records that it does.
Scope and limitations
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 14–20, 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 Singapore, September 2026; not generalisable beyond this market and window.
Method & source
This card observes the AI Overview opening-control rail for Premium Education Singapore in Singapore on Google desktop across 7 comparable scheduled runs in the observation period September 14–20, 2026. Per-actor AI opening share values are aggregated as the sum of each actor's opening citations across all 7 comparable runs, divided by one single period-wide denominator. The panel ranks the top 10 actors by cumulative opening volume over the period. The observation covers 105 queries. AI Overview opening-control evidence was available on 7 of 7 runs in the window.
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Period observation across 7 comparable scheduled runs (September 14–20, 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.
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The Premium Education Singapore room places this AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 reading alongside the market’s other published observations.
For the same observation window, September 14–20, 2026, Premium Education Singapore 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 Boston / New York reading and Dubai Abu Dhabi reading examine the same AI Overview Ranking — Top 10 for September 14–20, 2026; compare the stated reading bases before drawing a cross-market conclusion.
