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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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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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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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ChatGPT Changed How It Searches the Web — And Reddit Lost 86% of Its Citations
Reddit’s sudden disappearance from a large share of ChatGPT citations is an interesting story on its own. But the more consequential signal may be happening one step earlier, befor...
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Reddit Citations in ChatGPT Search Fell 86%: What the Query Fan-Out Shift Means for GEO
Reddit has not disappeared from the AI search ecosystem, but something significant appears to have changed in the way ChatGPT Search surfaces it to users. Data published by Promptw...
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ChatGPT Is Now Officially a Search Engine in the EU — What That Means for AI Search and Visibility
The European Commission has made a classification that may reshape how publishers, brands and search professionals think about AI visibility. On 31 August 2026, Brussels designa...
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“ChatGPT Down?” Reddit Users Report Problems — But There Is No Confirmed Global Outage
A Reddit post titled “ChatGPT down?” appeared in r/ChatGPT on August 30 and quickly attracted the kind of contradictory responses that make real-time outage reporting difficult. On...
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