SEO After AI — search, answers, and what actually changed
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Which passages AI answers cite, and which they use unnamed
Bart Magera, writing on the Advanced Web Ranking blog, coded 112 passages from 40 SEO queries. Passages that AI answers linked to were more often dated and named their subject outright. Passages used without a link were mostly…
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ChatGPT names fewer B2B tech brands per answer
BrightEdge tracked the same set of B2B tech questions in ChatGPT in March and September 2026. The average…
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ChatGPT’s Luna model searches fewer sites, more directly
Seer Interactive ran 346 matched prompts through GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna, the model ChatGPT now uses by default.…
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