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How does content freshness impact Perplexity and ChatGPT citations differently for B2B tech companies?
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
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How does content freshness impact Perplexity and ChatGPT citations differently for B2B tech companies?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
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
Perplexity citations freshness recency content sources ranking crawl freshness B2B content marketing Google ↗
ChatGPT search citations freshness content recency crawling sources ranking official documentation Google ↗
- Searching the web with ChatGPT · help.openai.com
- A Guide to Google Search Ranking Systems | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers · developers.google.com
- New Study: AI Assistants Prefer to Cite “Fresher” Content (17 Million Citations Analyzed) · ahrefs.com
- Study: Content Recency's Impact on AI Visibility in 2026 · seerinteractive.com
- What Drives AI Citations? Content, Retrieval and Model Knowledge in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) · arxiv.org
- GEO starts with the question, not the answer · axios.com
Queries
2 queries · click a column to sort
| Query / type | Search | Intent | Query class | Routing format | Cluster | Freq ↓ | Weight |
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Perplexity citations freshness recency content sources ranking crawl freshness B2B content marketing OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 | |
ChatGPT search citations freshness content recency crawling sources ranking official documentation OBSERVED | Google ↗ AI Mode ↗ | — | Reason | — | — | 1x of 1 |