14 guides
AI Search
AI answer engines do not behave like search engines, and the differences are measurable. Across 90 AEOeye audits the same brand was named by Claude in 31% of buyer questions but by Google AI Overviews in only 2% — checking one engine tells you very little.
How to read this section
- 1How each engine sources its answer: live retrieval, training memory, or a blend.
- 2Why the same question returns different brands on different engines.
- 3What causes an answer to change run-to-run, and how to tell drift from a real improvement.
AI Search
What Is an AI Overview? How Google Picks Its Sources (2026)
A Google AI Overview is an AI-written answer above search results, built from indexed pages. See how it grew out of SGE, picks sources and differs from AI Mode.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Search
How to Rank in Perplexity: 7 Steps to Get Cited (2026)
Perplexity cites pages it can fetch, quote and verify. Allow PerplexityBot, lead every section with the answer, date your pages and earn independent mentions.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Search
How to Rank in Google AI Mode (2026): Steps and Tracking
AI Mode needs no special markup. See how query fan-out picks links, the steps that earn them, and how to track AI Mode visibility in Search Console.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Search
How to Rank in Gemini: What Actually Works in 2026
Gemini has no ranking list, but it does name brands. Here is how Google Search grounding, Google-Extended and entity signals decide who gets named.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Visibility
How to Get Your Business Recommended by AI (3 Gates)
To get ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to recommend your business, clear three gates in order: findable, understandable, and vouched for by independent sources.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Search
Claude SEO: How to Get Cited and Recommended by Claude
Claude cites sources whenever it searches the web. Here is how it finds them, which Anthropic crawlers to allow, and the steps that get your brand named.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Search
ChatGPT SEO: How to Get Recommended and Cited by ChatGPT
ChatGPT SEO means getting named and linked in ChatGPT's answers. Here is how its search picks sources and the steps that make you the obvious pick.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Search
Best AI Search Engines in 2026: Which Ones Matter for Brands
The best AI search engines in 2026, what each does best, where each gets its sources, and which ones your brand should show up in first.
Oct 3, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Visibility
AI Visibility Score Methodology: How AEOeye Calculates It
How AEOeye's 0-100 AI visibility score works: 75% engine visibility, 25% site signals, per-answer scoring by rank and sentiment, grade bands and limits.
Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read
AI Search
AI Search Statistics (2026): Usage, AI Overviews, Citations
AI search statistics for 2026: ChatGPT and Gemini users, search market share, AI Overview click impact, citation accuracy, and what each means for brands.
Oct 3, 2026 · 8 min read
AI Search
AI Citation Evaluation Metrics: Audit Support, Sources, Share
How to audit AI answer citations: record each one, judge whether it supports the claim, measure source concentration, and track your domain's citation share.
Oct 3, 2026 · 8 min read
AI Search
AI Search Audit Methodology Template: 8 Decisions That Matter
A practitioner's AI search audit methodology: eight decisions on prompts, controls, sample size, coding, exclusions, versions and reporting, plus tools.
Oct 3, 2026 · 8 min read
AI Search
AI Crawler List: 22 User Agents and What 384 Sites Block
Every AI crawler user agent by job (training, search, user-triggered), plus AEOeye's October 2026 study of what 384 sites block and robots.txt rules to copy.
Oct 3, 2026 · 8 min read
AI Search
AI Brand Recommendation Measurement: Method and Benchmark
How to measure whether AI engines recommend your brand: eligibility, entity matching, rank coding, stability and accuracy, plus AEOeye's 892-answer benchmark.
Oct 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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