The short answer
Use both — they answer different questions. Search Console opened its generative-AI report in June 2026: impression-centric exposure inside Google surfaces for a site you own, rolling out progressively. That report is your first-party record, and where a client property has it, we link the export as evidence beside the paid read. CiteAngle measures the answer layer itself, across engines a single console does not cover: whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Bing Copilot name your brand and cite your pages, with competitors read in the same answers, repeated runs, and Wilson confidence intervals on every applicable rate.
Why this matters
Search Console reports the property you own and nothing else. A competitor pulling ahead inside the same answer never surfaces there, so the first signal is a quarter that came in short.
We read the answer layer across engines and link your own export beside it. The first-party record and the cross-engine read end up on one page.
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