Why does Google AI Overview still show my old price?

Google AI Overview often cites a price from a source snippet that has not caught up with your live product page. Updating the PDP (or Merchant feed) does not instantly rewrite every overview sentence that still names the old number.

What to check

• The overview text itself. Copy the AI Overview paragraph that still shows the old price—do not rely on memory.
• Named sources. If the overview attributes a site, open that URL and see whether that page still publishes the stale price.
• Your live page vs cache. Confirm the public HTML and any feed actually show the new price; fix source-of-truth first.
• Leftover vs missing. Sometimes the overview omits a price you expect; sometimes it keeps an old one. Those are different cleanup jobs.

What Leftover Price does

Leftover Price is a paste checker: you copy AI Overview text (and optional expected prices) and read flags for leftover or missing prices. It runs in the browser. It does not call Google’s API or force a re-crawl.

Use it to turn a vague “AIO is wrong” complaint into a short list of numbers still present in the overview wording.

Practical next steps

1. Paste the overview into Leftover Price on the homepage.
2. Fix any source page that still publishes the old price.
3. Request a recrawl / inspect the citing URL in Search Console when appropriate.
4. Re-check the overview later—AI Overview refresh is not instant.

Read the guide for copy/paste workflow detail. This page answers the search question; the homepage is the tool.

Why overviews lag your PDP

AI Overview assembles language from sources Google already trusts for that query. If a retailer page, blog roundup, or cached snippet still states last month’s price, the overview can keep that number even after your canonical product page is correct. Merchant Center feed delays and third-party scrapers add more lag.

Treating “update the PDP” as the only fix leaves the citing sources untouched. The durable fix is: correct your page and feed, then identify which overview sentences still carry leftover prices, then chase those sources.

How to use Leftover Price in that loop

• Paste the overview every time you spot a stale price—do not reuse an old paste.
• Separate leftover (old number still present) from missing (expected number absent).
• When a source is named, open it and confirm the live HTML before filing a correction.
• Log the date you fixed each source so you can tell refresh lag from a still-broken page.

The homepage tool is the working surface; this Q&A page answers why Google AI Overview still shows an old price after you thought you were done.

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