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Research write-ups from the same data behind the AI Search Visibility reports.

August 11, 2026
2 min read

Finally, a Real News Aggregator for Digital Marketers: news.OppAlerts.com

I'm so excited to share this. If you're a marketer and can't keep track of everything that's happening across your industry, that's a lot easier now.

July 29, 2026
15 min read

How One "Meaningless" Word Completely Changes Your AI Recommendation.

Eg: The Car You Own Changes Your Hotel Recommendations

July 28, 2026
3 min read

You Will Never, Ever, Ever Have Consistent AI Ranking Reports

You will never, ever, ever have consistent AI ranking reports. If you don't thoroughly understand why, you don't understand AI search. Imagine this prompt:…

July 27, 2026
12 min read

ChatGPT Disclosed Its Internal Ranking Process in Excruciating Detail. Here's How You Can Use It (for now).

ChatGPT disclosed far more about its own search tooling and process than I expected it to, and there is no guarantee it keeps doing that.

July 21, 2026
25 min read

New AI Search Visibility & LLM Ranking Factors Report Data (July 2026)

The new AI Search Visibility & Ranking Factors Report is up. 100 industries with in-depth research, resulting in 45k+ reports from 3 petabytes of data across 15 billion web pages, entire Reddit history, & more.

July 17, 2026
8 min read

Reddit's Use Across AI Search. And What's Reddit's Future if ChatGPT+Web Search Moves to Bing?

Reddit's Use Across AI Search. And What's Reddit's Future if ChatGPT+Web Search Moves to Bing?

July 14, 2026
22 min read

How Claude Turns Brave Search Results Into Citations: What's Shown from 1,100 Prompts, 2,290 Fanout Searches, & 45,000 Search Results

Claude's web search runs on Brave Search. Anthropic's subprocessor registry says so, and the first part of this study confirms it independently, in the data.

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