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Perplexity Vs Chatgpt — for AI Search & LLM
Perplexity vs ChatGPT for AI search: only ~11% of their cited domains overlap. Perplexity cites 8.79 sources/answer, ChatGPT web-searches ~34.5% of queries.
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What Is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization
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How we made llmranks.io itself AI-citable
We pointed our own audit engine at llmranks.io — 30 canonical mismatches, copy hidden from Google's renderer, stale AI-facing pricing. Every fix, measured.
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