Wissenswertes

Key Takeaways: Rudzki (Peec AI) analyzed 5 million query fanouts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok (April, 2026) and found: Perplexity commonly just simplifies your query - not much insight for optimization (1.4 fanouts per prompt) ChatGPT commonly adds brands, comparisons, and reviews - crucial for optimization for AI search (2.1 fanouts per prompt) Grok runs a full research brief with year modifiers and site: operators - the richest signal of all if you want to optimize

Key Takeaways: Landwehr analyzed AI Search responses for pnewind(.)com - a former wind energy company website that has been misused by Casino Affiliates using Google cloaking and access blocking His findings suggest: OpenAI is scraping Google Grok is somehow using Google Claude is using Brave Search Perplexity might use Brave Search (but states that it uses its own index) Konitzny points out that Grok is using Brave for image search - based on the code run in Chrome. Ray con

Key Takeaways: xAI launched Grokipedia that promotes to be a Wikipedia that is fact checked and rewritten by Grok: " ... it rewrites those pages, removing falsehoods, correcting half-truths, and adding crucial & missing context" Grokipedia currently has almost 1m articles and is indexable on Google As Brick and Jeffrey point out already over 900.000 pages are indexed on Google - some ranking already and are cited in LLM chats It will be interesting to see how Google approac

Key Takeaways : Grok also does a Query Fan-Out - rewriting a prompt into searches Grok uses Brave Search instead of Google or Bing Source...