ChatGPT Search & AI Citations
News, experiments and research about ChatGPT, OpenAI search, AI citations, web discovery and how brands and publishers appear in AI-generated answers.
Publishers Say Bing AI and ChatGPT Don’t Just Use Their News — They Replace the Visit
The Seattle Times and Newsday have taken one of the central arguments in the AI-publishing conflict to federal court: the problem, they say, is not merely that artificial intellige...
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Ranking on Google Doesn’t Mean ChatGPT Will Recommend Your Brand
A page can rank on the first page of Google and still disappear when a buyer asks ChatGPT which companies to consider. That gap is becoming one of the central measurement problems....
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ChatGPT Overtakes Bing and DuckDuckGo as Search Traffic Splinters
ChatGPT has crossed a symbolic line in the U.S. web market. Semrush estimates that ChatGPT.com received 1.09 billion U.S. visits in July 2026, enough to place it ahead of both Duck...
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95% of ChatGPT Users Still Use Google — but They Search and Click Less
One statistic has become a convenient rebuttal to predictions that AI assistants are replacing Google: 95% of ChatGPT users still use Google. The number is real, but it does not me...
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ChatGPT and Codex Can Now Create, Manage and Optimize Ad Campaigns
OpenAI is turning ChatGPT Ads from a conventional self-service advertising dashboard into something closer to an AI-operated campaign platform. Advertisers can now use an Ads Manag...
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ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Are Back — but Their Simultaneous Outages Remain Unexplained
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok are operational again after an unusual morning in which three major AI services suffered outages at almost the same time. The recovery answers the immediat...
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The EU Officially Recognizes ChatGPT as a Search Engine
The European Union has turned a long-running debate about AI search into a regulatory fact. On August 31, the European Commission officially designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Onli...
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ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Went Down Together — AI Search Has a Reliability Problem
AI assistants are becoming infrastructure before they have achieved infrastructure-level reliability. On September 3, users encountered overlapping service problems across products...
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OpenAI Connects ChatGPT Directly to Epic — And Healthcare Search Moves Inside the Patient Record
OpenAI is moving ChatGPT deeper into one of the most consequential information environments in healthcare: the electronic health record. On September 1, the company announced a new...
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OpenAI Licensing Deals Are Linked to 48% More ChatGPT Citations
A new dataset is putting a number on a question publishers have been asking since AI companies began signing content agreements with major media groups: do those commercial relatio...
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The EU Just Officially Classified ChatGPT as a Search Engine
For the SEO industry, the debate over whether ChatGPT should really be considered a search engine just became much less theoretical. On 31 August 2026, the European Commission offi...
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