TEARDOWN 06 · REVIEWED 2026-08-16
AlsoAsked
AlsoAsked queries Google's "People Also Ask" boxes for a keyword and recursively expands each nested question into a visual tree, exportable as CSV or an image. It also offers an API that returns results instantly or via a callback, plus city-level, multi-language targeting for pulling the same data programmatically.
AlsoAsked has no index of its own — every result is a live scrape of Google's People Also Ask boxes, and DataForSEO and SerpApi already sell that exact recursive-PAA endpoint as an API.
What you lose building it yourself
- ✕Cached search history and bulk search across keywords
- ✕City-level and language targeting already wired up
Why people still pay
The recursive-call mechanic itself is a weekend build once you have API access; what AlsoAsked actually charges for is the production-grade layer around it — reliability, storage, and configuration options — that turns a one-off script into something a team can run repeatedly without maintaining it themselves.
WEEKEND CLONE
Sign up for a SERP data API such as DataForSEO or SerpApi — both already return nested People Also Ask questions when you ask for extra depth, which is the hard part of this tool. Point an AI coding tool at that endpoint, have it call itself for every new question that comes back, and store the results as a tree you can render and export as CSV or an image. What's left after that is UI polish — search history, bulk uploads, PNG export — not new data access.
StackDataForSEO or SerpApi (People Also Ask / related-questions endpoint) · a tree-diagram library for the visualization.
Build a script that calls a SERP API's People Also Ask endpoint (DataForSEO or SerpApi) for a keyword with recursive/deep-search enabled, and for each returned question calls the endpoint again to expand it further, up to 2-3 levels deep. Store the results as a tree and export it as CSV.
Similar tools
Free alternative: people-also-ask (open-source scraper) — pulls Google's People Also Ask questions for a keyword for free; nothing free replicates AlsoAsked's recursive tree — this returns a flat list, not nested expansion
QUESTIONS
Is there a free way to try it?
AlsoAsked's site mentions free monthly search credits for people who haven't signed up, though it doesn't publish the exact number; paid plans start at $12/month for 100 credits.
Does AlsoAsked use AI to generate anything?
No — the "clustering" it shows is Google's own nested PAA structure, not an AI-generated grouping. AlsoAsked scrapes and visualizes; it doesn't write.
How accurate is the "~150 questions per query" claim?
That average comes from AlsoAsked itself; actual counts vary a lot by topic, since they depend on how many PAA boxes Google exposes for that specific search.