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What are the most reliable methods for reverse-engineering why a competitor is constantly featured in ChatGPT recommendations while our client is completely ignored?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
What are the most reliable methods for reverse-engineering why a competitor is constantly featured in ChatGPT recommendations while our client is completely ignored?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
OpenAI ChatGPT search publisher guidance crawler OAI-SearchBot ranking recommendations sources visibility 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
research study factors brand visibility in ChatGPT recommendations citations SEO entity authority structured data third party reviewsGoogle ↗
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)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 2 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
OpenAI ChatGPT search publisher guidance crawler OAI-SearchBot ranking recommendations sources visibility 2026 Google ↗
research study factors brand visibility in ChatGPT recommendations citations SEO entity authority structured data third party reviews Google ↗
- Why 62% of AI citations don’t lead to brand mentions [Study] · semrush.com
- AI visibility is a topic-level game: A study of 50,000 brands in ChatGPT [Study] · semrush.com
- Overview of OpenAI Crawlers · developers.openai.com
- Publishers and Developers - FAQ · help.openai.com
- What Drives AI Citations? Content, Retrieval and Model Knowledge in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) · arxiv.org
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
OpenAI ChatGPT search publisher guidance crawler OAI-SearchBot ranking recommendations sources visibility 2026 OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Other / navigational | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
research study factors brand visibility in ChatGPT recommendations citations SEO entity authority structured data third party reviews OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |