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How do I diagnose why our main competitor is always recommended by ChatGPT while our business never gets mentioned at all?

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 I diagnose why our main competitor is always recommended by ChatGPT while our business never gets mentioned at all?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
OpenAI ChatGPT search how sources are selected recommendations website visibility publishers documentationGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational
AI search visibility recommendations brand mentions third party sources study ChatGPT 2025Google ↗
OBSERVEDOther / navigational

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 / navigational100%ComparisonConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstructionYes / no

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 how sources are selected recommendations website visibility publishers documentation Google ↗
AI search visibility recommendations brand mentions third party sources study ChatGPT 2025 Google ↗

Queries

2 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
OpenAI ChatGPT search how sources are selected recommendations website visibility publishers documentation
OBSERVED
Google ↗
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—Other / navigational——1x
of 1
AI search visibility recommendations brand mentions third party sources study ChatGPT 2025
OBSERVED
Google ↗
AI Mode ↗
—Other / navigational——1x
of 1