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 Ads Are Already Here — and the Privacy Debate Has Moved to Personalization
Advertising in ChatGPT is no longer a hypothetical future business model. OpenAI has moved from its initial U.S. pilot into a broader international rollout, and as of August 24 Cha...
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ChatGPT Temporary Chats Can Now Use Saved Memories
ChatGPT’s Temporary Chat is no longer necessarily a blank-slate conversation. OpenAI has updated the feature so users can start a personalized Temporary Chat that draws on informat...
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ChatGPT Changed How It Searches the Web — And Reddit Lost 86% of Its Citations
ChatGPT Changed How It Searches the Web — And Reddit Lost 86% of Its Citations Reddit did not suddenly become a worse source in August. Yet its visible footprint inside ChatGPT Sea...
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ChatGPT Designed a Snoop Dogg Mint-Choc Ice Cream Box — and Reddit Was More Amused by the Caption
ChatGPT Designed a Snoop Dogg Mint-Choc Ice Cream Box — and Reddit Was More Amused by the Caption A small post on Reddit offers a simple demonstration of how far consumer AI image....
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The Most Interesting ChatGPT Image Prompt Is: “Show Me Who You Think I Am”
The Most Interesting ChatGPT Image Prompt Is: “Show Me Who You Think I Am” A Reddit user has turned ChatGPT image generation into something more revealing than another prompt-engin...
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ChatGPT Hit by Elevated Errors on August 27, With Users Reporting Unusual Internal Tokens
ChatGPT Hit by Elevated Errors on August 27, With Users Reporting Unusual Internal Tokens ChatGPT experienced a period of elevated errors on August 27, 2026, affecting ChatGPT Work...
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ChatGPT Ads Launch in India as OpenAI Expands in Brazil
OpenAI is expanding its advertising business into India while strengthening its commercial operations in Brazil, underscoring the growing importance of two of ChatGPT's largest int...
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ChatGPT Rebuilt How It Searches the Web. SEOs Should Pay Attention
SEO has spent decades learning how to optimize for a search box. ChatGPT is making that mental model increasingly incomplete. Recent observations of ChatGPT’s web-search tooling su...
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The Best ChatGPT Plugins Are the Ones That Turn Conversation Into Action
ChatGPT becomes considerably more interesting when the conversation stops being the final product. A useful answer is one thing; an assistant that can turn the answer into a playli...
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Reddit’s ChatGPT Citation Drop Exposes a Weakness in How We Think About GEO
Reddit did not suddenly become irrelevant to the internet in August. Its communities did not stop producing product recommendations, first-hand experiences, troubleshooting advice....
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ChatGPT Warned a User Not to Run the Command It Had Just Written
A curious exchange posted to Reddit has drawn attention to an increasingly visible trait of modern AI assistants: they can sometimes catch their own mistakes, but only after they h...
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