The details
The example was posted on X and covered by Search Engine Roundtable on August 12. The report does not include a response from Google, so treat this as an observed behavior and not a confirmed or permanent one.
The background
AI Overviews assemble answers from pages Google already trusts enough to rank. For “best” searches, list articles match the wording of the query well, which helps explain why they get picked up even when the author has an obvious interest.
Our read
We would not advise writing a list that ranks yourself first. Google's spam systems have targeted that kind of content before, and it reads badly to customers. The durable fix is coverage on independent sources: local press, trade associations, genuine review platforms and real directories. When several credible pages describe your business the same way, a single self-serving list has far less influence on the answer.