https://oppalerts.com/blog Research write-ups from the same data behind the AI Search Visibility reports. en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:30:54 +0000 https://oppalerts.com/finally-a-real-news-aggregator-for-digital-marketers-news-oppalerts-com https://oppalerts.com/finally-a-real-news-aggregator-for-digital-marketers-news-oppalerts-com Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:18:31 +0000 Ben Wills 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. https://oppalerts.com/how-one-meaningless-word-completely-changes-your-ai-recommendation https://oppalerts.com/how-one-meaningless-word-completely-changes-your-ai-recommendation Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:13:09 +0000 Ben Wills Eg: The Car You Own Changes Your Hotel Recommendations https://oppalerts.com/you-will-never-ever-ever-have-consistent-ai-ranking-reports https://oppalerts.com/you-will-never-ever-ever-have-consistent-ai-ranking-reports Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:40:57 +0000 Ben Wills 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:… https://oppalerts.com/chatgpt-disclosed-its-internal-ranking-process-in-excruciating-detail-heres-how-you-can-use-it-for-now https://oppalerts.com/chatgpt-disclosed-its-internal-ranking-process-in-excruciating-detail-heres-how-you-can-use-it-for-now Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:30:50 +0000 Ben Wills 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. https://oppalerts.com/new-ai-search-visibility-llm-ranking-factors-report-data-july-2026 https://oppalerts.com/new-ai-search-visibility-llm-ranking-factors-report-data-july-2026 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:48:16 +0000 Ben Wills 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. https://oppalerts.com/reddits-use-across-ai-search-and-whats-reddits-future-if-chatgptweb-search-moves-to-bing https://oppalerts.com/reddits-use-across-ai-search-and-whats-reddits-future-if-chatgptweb-search-moves-to-bing Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:07:16 +0000 Ben Wills Reddit's Use Across AI Search. And What's Reddit's Future if ChatGPT+Web Search Moves to Bing? https://oppalerts.com/how-claude-turns-brave-search-results-into-citations https://oppalerts.com/how-claude-turns-brave-search-results-into-citations Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:51:17 +0000 Ben Wills 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.