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Analysis of 18,377 query pairs shows retrieval-based AI systems like Perplexity achieve 43% domain overlap with Google, while reasoning models like ChatGPT cite only 21% of the same sources Search ...

New research from BrightEdge shows that Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT recommend different brands nearly 62% of the time. BrightEdge concludes that each AI search platform is interpreting ...

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The comprehensive study of 18,377 semantically matched query pairs reveals that AI-generated answers cite fundamentally different web sources than those appearing in search engine results pages (SERPs ...