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OtterlyAI, which sells AI-visibility tracking, analysed 617,985 citations from seven AI engines on US buyer questions in September 2026. Listicles were 66.6% of citations with an identifiable format; among cited listicles, comparisons and guides, commission-declaring publishers supplied …
Ahrefs' 12 October 2026 study of US ChatGPT answers (2.4 million in March, 3.8 million in September) found PubMed rose from 64th to 4th among cited domains, while Reddit's share fell from 19.1% to 2.3% and Wikipedia's from 14.1% to 2.9%. A control on about 25,000 shared prompts showed the …
Ahrefs crawled 232.8 million US desktop results and found AI Overviews on 83% of branded searches on 2026-09-29; the monthly rate rose from 61.3% in July to 73.3% in September. Of Interbrand's top 100 global brands, 63 showed one by 2026-09-30. In the 57 Overviews with full text visible …
OtterlyAI changed only the visible "last updated" date on 10 of its own articles on 2026-08-04. Citations rose from 4,800 to 6,312 over the next 30 days, while 2 untouched control articles fell 10.6%. OtterlyAI itself calls the result directional, because citations were already trending …
ChatGPT, Copilot, Google and Perplexity cite almost entirely different pages for the same question — check each engine before concluding a brand is missing from AI answers. An arXiv audit by independent researcher Benjamin Tannenbaum (19 September 2026) ran 15 commercial prompts through …
Someone else's web page can plant false claims about your brand in AI answers — off-the-shelf safety filters cut that attack's success rate by at most 5.7%. A September 2, 2026 preprint, Counter-GEO-Bench (arXiv:2609.02316), ran 247 human-verified queries through three LLMs, each query …
Only 1.3% of Google Shopping carousel products also appear in AI Mode — so carousel performance does not tell you which price or which seller AI Mode is showing for the same product. Productrise tracked 2,000,000+ listings across 100,000+ US and UK queries from August 9–31, 2026: where a …
Claude Code searches the web in 13% of responses, Claude in 93% — treat them as separate answer engines. AI-visibility vendor Profound tested 1,724 identical prompts across both products (July 13–23, 2026; 24,135 responses) and found only ~20% brand-mention overlap on the same prompts; a …
Google Analytics logs up to 29% of AI Overview traffic as 'Direct' — and the window worth re-checking is February to June 2026, when AI Overviews peaked at 16% to 17% of organic sessions. A nine-month Search Engine Land study (September 2025 to June 2026; 51,200 citation events across …
Your website has no OpenAI licensing deal and ChatGPT quotes it like Reuters anyway — and what ChatGPT quotes is a page's opening headline plus the next ~150 characters. Two researchers got there separately. French consultancy Resoneo captured 1,249 ChatGPT answers in July 2026 and found …