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Notes on AI visibility, prompt engineering, and getting found by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
ResearchAnswer engines changed what they read in August
Across more than 220,000 measured AI answers, the engines changed what they read in August. Reddit collapsed, and one brand nearly vanished from Copilot when a single page stopped being cited.
Dan Johnson · about 2 months ago
ResearchHow Google Redefined What Counts as a Business
Google now treats a business as a verified set of accounts rather than a website. AI systems reach the same conclusion by guessing.
Molly Stephens · about 2 months ago
ResearchWe ran 15,000 controlled AI captures. APIs and consumer surfaces agreed on 22% of citation sources.
500 prompts, 5 verticals, 14,354 paired captures across three AI providers. Overall citation-domain overlap between API and consumer surface: 22%. Google API path: 0%.
Dan Johnson · 3 months ago