— Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview —
Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education, Singapore?
facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 11.17%, across the 7-run observation period from September 21–27, 2026.
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- Market
- Premium Education
- Location
- Singapore
- Observed period
- September 21–27, 2026
- Run type
- Period run · 7 comparable runs
- Queries
- 105 queries per run
- Search engine
- Device
- Desktop
- Source location
- Singapore
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- Ranking Top 10 · AI Overview
“On Premium Education Singapore, no single source controls the AI opening slot — the top-10 panel is a contested field across 7 comparable runs.”
Quick answer
skoolopedia.com sits 0.26 percentage points behind at 10.91%, and youtube.com records 10.39%.
Key reading
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
facebook.com holds the rank-1 position in the period-wide AI opening-control ranking for Premium Education Singapore, but the spread from rank 1 to rank 10 is only 6.23 percentage points — a narrow band for a 10-actor panel observed across 7 comparable scheduled runs (September 21–27, 2026). The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, confirming that opening-control volume is dispersed rather than concentrated at the top. The 9 sources behind facebook.com range from 10.91% down to 4.94%, and the panel mixes general-purpose platforms (facebook.com, youtube.com, reddit.com, instagram.com) with focused education domains (skoolopedia.com, goodschoolsguide.co.uk, theinternationalschools.com, whichschooladvisor.com, littlestepsasia.com) and one institution, Australian International School Singapore. The surface structure signals that AI Overviews draw on a wide pool of sources when opening answers to premium-education queries in Singapore, with no single actor accumulating a decisive share over the period.
Core metric
AIO opening control — top 10 · Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
Observed metric
AIO opening control — top 10
| Actor | Rank | AIO opening share | Presence |
|---|---|---|---|
| facebook.com | #1 | 11.17% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| skoolopedia.com | #2 | 10.91% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| youtube.com | #3 | 10.39% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| reddit.com | #4 | 7.79% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| instagram.com | #5 | 7.01% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| Australian International School Singapore | #6 | 5.71% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| goodschoolsguide.co.uk | #7 | 5.71% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
| theinternationalschools.com | #8 | 5.45% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| whichschooladvisor.com | #9 | 5.19% AI opening share | opening in 7/7 runs |
| littlestepsasia.com | #10 | 4.94% AI opening share | opening in 6/7 runs |
How the actors read on the surface
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 11.17%. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it at the top of the period-wide ranking — though its lead over skoolopedia.com is only 0.26 percentage points.
skoolopedia.com records 10.91% AI opening share on this market, sitting 0.26 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market. A focused education domain, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, matching the rank-1 actor's presence frequency across the window.
youtube.com records 10.39% AI opening share on this market and sits 0.78 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market. As a general-purpose platform, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, occupying the third position in the period-wide ranking.
reddit.com records 7.79% AI opening share on this market. It sits 3.38 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market — a wider gap than the separation among the top three. reddit.com opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
instagram.com records 7.01% AI opening share on this market and sits 4.16 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market. Another social platform on the panel, it opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
Australian International School Singapore
Australian International School Singapore records 5.71% AI opening share on this market and sits 5.45 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs — one of the three actors on the panel that did not appear in every run.
goodschoolsguide.co.uk records 5.71% AI opening share on this market, matching Australian International School Singapore on the primary metric. It opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs and sits 5.45 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market.
theinternationalschools.com records 5.45% AI opening share on this market and sits 5.71 percentage points behind facebook.com. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs, placing it among the majority of actors present across every run in the window.
whichschooladvisor.com records 5.19% AI opening share on this market and sits 5.97 percentage points behind facebook.com on AI opening share on this market. It opened AI answers on 7 of 7 comparable runs.
littlestepsasia.com records 4.94% AI opening share on this market, the lowest on the governed panel. It sits 6.23 percentage points behind facebook.com and opened AI answers on 6 of 7 comparable runs.
Pattern on the observed surface
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
The panel is dispersed rather than top-heavy
The panel is dispersed rather than top-heavy. The top 3 actors together hold less than the remaining 7 combined, and the top 2 actors together hold less than the remaining 8 combined. The 9 sources behind facebook.com range from 10.91% down to 4.94% — a narrow trailing band for a 10-actor surface. The composition itself is notable: four general-purpose social or user-generated platforms (facebook.com, youtube.com, reddit.com, instagram.com) share the panel with five focused education domains and one institution. 7 of the 10 actors on the panel opened AI answers in all 7 comparable runs; 3 opened AI answers in fewer runs. The surface reads as a wide, contested opening-control rail where AI Overviews draw from a broad mix of source types rather than concentrating on any single category.
Why this reading matters
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
facebook.com holds the rank-1 position on this AI opening-control rail, yet it is a social platform rather than a specialist education source. The fact that a general-purpose platform accumulated the highest opening volume on a premium-education surface — ahead of dedicated school-advisory domains like skoolopedia.com and goodschoolsguide.co.uk — suggests that AI Overviews in Singapore do not default to specialist education sources when opening answers to this market's queries.
Market implication
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 2026
The observed opening-control rail for Premium Education Singapore signals that AI Overviews draw on a wide, heterogeneous pool of sources when answering education queries in this market. The dispersed structure — with the top 3 actors together holding less than the remaining 7 combined — suggests that no single actor or source type has secured a grip on the AI primacy slot over the observed 7-run window. For any institution or domain monitoring its AI-surface visibility in Singapore education, the observation reframes the question: the contest is not about displacing one dominant source but about competing for share on a fragmented rail where platforms and niche domains coexist.
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- Premium Education · Singapore
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- AI Overview · Google · Desktop
- Observed:
- September 21–27, 2026
- Published:
- September 29, 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-21-27-2026 Scope: Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · Google · Desktop Family: Ranking Top 10 Observed: September 21–27, 2026 (2026-09-21/2026-09-27) Published: September 29, 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-21-27-2026/data.csv Citation text: https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-singapore-ai-overview-control-september-21-27-2026/citation.txt Reuse terms: https://theobservatory.io/terms facebook.com holds the strongest AI opening share on this market in this card scope, at 11.17%, across the 7-run observation period from September 21–27, 2026. Key facts: • facebook.com: 11% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • skoolopedia.com: 11% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs • youtube.com: 10% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs Published table — AIO opening control — top 10 (September 21–27, 2026 · 105 queries per run · 7 comparable runs): Rank · Actor · AIO opening control 1. facebook.com — 11.17% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #1 2. skoolopedia.com — 10.91% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #2 3. youtube.com — 10.39% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #3 4. reddit.com — 7.79% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #4 5. instagram.com — 7.01% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #5 6. Australian International School Singapore — 5.71% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #6 7. goodschoolsguide.co.uk — 5.71% AI opening share · opening in 6/7 runs — #7 8. theinternationalschools.com — 5.45% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #8 9. whichschooladvisor.com — 5.19% AI opening share · opening in 7/7 runs — #9 10. littlestepsasia.com — 4.94% 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 21–27, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening share on this market, aggregated from 105 observed queries. Per-actor values represent the sum of each actor's opening appearances across all comparable runs, divided by one single period-wide denominator. 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 21–27, 2026 Based on governed AAI Kernel evidence. Capture identifier: pr_1790475615332_970ugc. 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 29, 2026), Who controls Google's AI Overview for Premium Education, Singapore?. https://theobservatory.io/articles/premium-education-singapore-ai-overview-control-september-21-27-2026 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: af48a9e4b184f4c8
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FAQ
- 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 within the answer.
- Does this card prove a longer-term trend in AI opening behavior?
- No. This observation covers 7 comparable scheduled runs in an observation period from September 21–27, 2026. It does not establish a longer-term trend. AI Overview opening behavior is volatile across queries, models, and dates, and future windows may produce different results.
- Why do platforms like facebook.com and youtube.com appear on a premium-education surface?
- This card observes which sources AI Overviews reach for first when answering 105 premium-education queries in Singapore. The panel reflects what the AI surface actually cites at the opening, not a curated list of education providers. Platforms appear because AI Overviews selected them as opening sources for some of those queries over the observed period.
Scope and limitations
Premium Education · Singapore · AI Overview · September 21–27, 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 21–27, 2026. The panel ranks the top-10 actors by cumulative AI opening share on this market, aggregated from 105 observed queries. Per-actor values represent the sum of each actor's opening appearances across all comparable runs, divided by one single period-wide denominator. 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 21–27, 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 21–27, 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 21–27, 2026; compare the stated reading bases before drawing a cross-market conclusion.
