Original Writesonic research on AI search behavior and citation patterns.
ChatGPT replaced GPT-5.3 with GPT-5.5 as its free-tier default in early May. The data shows brand citations halved, Reddit became the most-cited domain by a 3x…
GPT-5.5 cites brand websites 47% of the time, down from GPT-5.4’s 57%. The mechanism: site: operator usage collapsed from 40.5% of searches to 12.6%. Here’s wh…
Most of your website is invisible to AI. We planted 60 hidden markers across a test page and asked 6 AI assistants to find them. The results will change how yo…
We tested 50 prompts across ChatGPT’s new models and extracted every fan-out query, web search result, and citation. GPT-5.3 sends users to blog posts about yo…
Key Takeaways So far in my foray into LLM data, I’ve focused on content types and query frames. What formats get cited, how platforms respond to different inte…
Key Takeaways Welcome back to our AI search lab. Last time, I analyzed LLM citation patterns in branded vs. non-branded prompts. This week, I wanted to find ou…
Key Takeaways: Another week, another peek under the LLM hood. Last time, I looked at platform citation behavior across industries to try and spot if there were…
Key Takeaways I’m currently in the middle of analyzing 282 million AI platform citations across 18 industries and 8 LLMs. This is the first post in a series un…
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