My teenage son needs a new phone and I want to spend less than five hundred dollars. What are the best options available right now?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
My teenage son needs a new phone and I want to spend less than five hundred dollars. What are the best options available right now?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
best phones under $500 2026 Pixel Samsung iPhone prices models US October 2026Google ↗
OBSERVED
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
Classifying 1 queries…
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
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