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ChatGPT Often Retrieves But Rarely Cites Reddit Pages, Data Shows via @sejournal

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ChatGPT traffic analysis: Insights from 17 months of clickstream data

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12 Oct
ChatGPT’s Most-Cited Sites Tilt Toward Primary Sources, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Government health, research, and regulator sites climbed ChatGPT's U.S. citation ranks while explainers fell.</p> <p>The post <a

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13 Jul
ChatGPT Access Tied To 9% Drop In Traditional Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>A new research paper compares how often ChatGPT and Google send people to websites, and what wider ChatGPT access did to search.</p> <p>The post <a

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27 Aug
ChatGPT Searches Individual Subreddits By Name via @sejournal, @suganthan

<p>Reddit still wins ChatGPT citations where a forum is the best source. Two captures, four days apart, show what actually decides the credit.</p> <p>The post <a

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23 Sept
ChatGPT Ads Appeared In 47% Of Video Gaming Chats, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Data shows ChatGPT ads becoming more common in retail conversations among US users on desktop.</p> <p>The post <a

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25 Aug
ChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool, I Read The New Language It Speaks via @sejournal, @suganthan

<p>84 Reddit threads entered the retrieval pool. Zero got cited. The new tool-call format shows what ChatGPT fetches before it answers.</p> <p>The post <a

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18 Oct
OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI's API can stand in for ChatGPT's citations. They matched cited sites more often than the exact pages.</p> <p>The post <a

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6 May
Google Adds More Links & Link Context To AI Search via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

<p>Google is adding subscription labels, inline links, discussion previews, and desktop link previews to its AI Search experiences.</p> <p>The post <a

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