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Measured, not asserted. Studies on answer-engine citation, organic visibility, and what actually moves them.
Answer engines prefer to cite old pages that have been regularly updated
A pilot study of 356 pages cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and AI Overview. The typical cited page is two years old; seven in ten were edited in the last year.
ChatGPT beats both Google AI Mode and AI Overviews in quality 84% of the time
A pilot study: blind, ranked comparison of ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and AI Overview on 25 real prompts. ChatGPT won 21 of 25. Full per-query data below.