Real ChatGPT answer · index seedkbxjrA1iojgcompleteMarketing and advertising · AI search and generative engine optimizationcommercial

Why is Perplexity recommending our competitor instead of us for commercial queries and how do we override that by tomorrow?

ChatGPTgpt-63 queries11/1/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
Why is Perplexity recommending our competitor instead of us for commercial queries and how do we override that by tomorrow?
3 real searches · 1 real-search pass
Perplexity official help how search ranking sources citations crawler indexing robots.txt 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDInstruction
PerplexityBot crawler documentation robots.txt officialGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
AI search visibility recommendations commercial queries competitor brand mentions structured data independent reviews study 2026Google ↗
OBSERVEDComparison

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 (3)
Short factOther / navigational33%Comparison33%ConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstruction33%Yes / no

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 3 of 3 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT3 real searches · gpt-6
Perplexity official help how search ranking sources citations crawler indexing robots.txt 2026 Google ↗
PerplexityBot crawler documentation robots.txt official Google ↗
AI search visibility recommendations commercial queries competitor brand mentions structured data independent reviews study 2026 Google ↗

Queries

3 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
Perplexity official help how search ranking sources citations crawler indexing robots.txt 2026
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Instruction——1x
of 1
PerplexityBot crawler documentation robots.txt official
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
AI search visibility recommendations commercial queries competitor brand mentions structured data independent reviews study 2026
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Comparison——1x
of 1