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How do LLMs decide which third-party review sites to trust when generating product recommendations for local consumers?

ChatGPTgpt-62 queries11/1/2026
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Fan-out diagram

The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
How do LLMs decide which third-party review sites to trust when generating product recommendations for local consumers?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
how search engines evaluate local business reviews review quality relevance prominence Google local ranking reviews official documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason
LLM retrieval augmented generation source selection trustworthiness credibility provenance reviews researchGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDReason

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.

ChatGPT real searches (2)
Short factOther / navigationalComparisonConsequenceReason100%DefinitionInstructionYes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 2 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
how search engines evaluate local business reviews review quality relevance prominence Google local ranking reviews official documentation Google ↗
LLM retrieval augmented generation source selection trustworthiness credibility provenance reviews research Google ↗

Queries

2 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
how search engines evaluate local business reviews review quality relevance prominence Google local ranking reviews official documentation
OBSERVED
Google ↗
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LLM retrieval augmented generation source selection trustworthiness credibility provenance reviews research
OBSERVED
Google ↗
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—Reason——1x
of 1