ChatGPT Search & AI Citations
News, experiments and research about ChatGPT, OpenAI search, AI citations, web discovery and how brands and publishers appear in AI-generated answers.
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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ChatGPT Voice Is Good Enough for a Four-Hour Lab Session — But It Still Can’t Keep the Notebook
A six-minute-old Reddit question from a molecular bench scientist captures one of the most important gaps in today’s AI assistants better than a polished product demo could. The re...
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ChatGPT Ads Arrive in India — OpenAI Is Building an Ad Market Around the Moment Before a Decision
ChatGPT’s advertising business has reached the market that may reveal more about its future than almost any other. OpenAI is rolling out ads to logged-in adult users on the Free an...
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