Answer engine optimization (AEO) is an emerging practice of making content easier for AI systems to understand, cite, and recommend in generated answers, according to a guide that notes the terminolog…
Reddit citations in ChatGPT Search fell more than 86 percent between Aug. 14 and 17, dropping from an average share of 3.83 percent to 0.52 percent, according to a report from AI analytics company Pro…
PromptWatch reported that Reddit's share of citations in its ChatGPT Search tracking fell 86% in four days, from roughly 3.8% to 0.5%. The reading is third-party measurement rather than an OpenAI disc…
Reddit's share of citations in OpenAI's ChatGPT Search plunged 86% from 3.8% to 0.5% in about a week starting August 8, 2026, following a backend change to ChatGPT's query fanout behavior, according t…
OpenAI has drastically reduced its citations of Reddit in ChatGPT responses, dropping from 4.5% to 0.5% of outputs after switching to a 'site:operator' search method, according to PromptWatch data. Me…
ChatGPT and Gemini secretly perform traditional web searches in the background to generate answers, and a new free tool called QueryFan reveals exactly which searches each model triggers. Analysis sho…