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How AI search actually works

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August 15, 2026/13 min read

10x AI Visibility Refresh

What Happened When We Refreshed 98 Posts and Published Nothing

98 posts refreshed, zero pages published, citations up 10x in 91 days. The correlation between Google rank and AI citation was effectively zero, and 41 cited pages had no Google impressions at all.

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June 19, 2026/28 min read

The Credibility Layer

How ChatGPT Recommends Local Businesses

200 reasoning sessions, 5,933 logged searches, 1,982 citations. Rank barely touches recommendations, Reddit was cited zero times, and every recommendation turned out to be a 30 search credibility audit.

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