The UAE AI Visibility Index.

Source: Curious Mind Labs screening, Google AI Mode, as of 11 October 2026.

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Source: Curious Mind Labs screening and Google AI Modeanswers, as of 11 October 2026. Being named is not a quality judgement and answers change. Each market page carries the full snapshot for that market, including the businesses named and the 10 questions we ask there.

The markets

14 industries chosen for the UAE, each in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, which gives 38 markets. The list is fixed, so a market that looks bad for us stays in the table.

The questions

Ten buyer questions per market, written in the words people actually type, with the city named. That is a library of 140 questions. The money question is asked first in every market, then up to four more, and the rest are run as the screening continues. So far 190 questions have been run.

The answers

Asked in Google AI Mode, in English, from a fresh logged-out session, on the date shown against each market. We record the businesses named exactly as the answer gave them, with the rating and review count it showed. We measure Google AI Mode first because 93.5% of UAE searches happen on Google (Statcounter, September 2026), and Google's AI Mode has been available in over 200 countries and territories, and in Arabic, since October 2025 (Google, October 2025).

The areas

In Dubai we also ask the money question one area at a time, with the area named (JLT, Business Bay, Deira and so on), because people choose a clinic, broker or consultant close to home and the answer for an area is a different list from the answer for the whole city. Each market page shows its areas, and every answer behind it can be downloaded as a CSV: one row per business named, with the question, the date, the area and the position.

The website screen

For each named business we open the website and record four mechanical facts: whether the homepage carries any structured data, whether it declares a mobile viewport, the most recent year in the footer, and whether an Arabic version exists. A market only gets a findings section once we have screened at least 3 of its sites.

1. 01 This is a snapshot, not a ranking. Every row records what one answer said on one day, in one language, from one logged-out session.
2. 02 Answers change. Ask the same question next week and the names may differ. That is a property of generated answers, not an error in the data, and it is why we date every screen.
3. 03 Inclusion is not a quality judgement. Being named says nothing about whether a business is good, safe or right for you, and being absent says nothing bad about anyone.
4. 04 The website checks are mechanical and shallow. They say what a machine can read in seconds, not whether a site is well built or a business is well run.
5. 05 We sell a service in these markets, which is a real interest to declare. It is also why the method is published in full, so you can run any row yourself and disagree with us.

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