What Actually Makes AI Search Engines Cite Your...

Google and ChatGPT don't agree on who deserves to rank. A 2025 Chatoptic study tested 1,000 search queries across 15 brands and found just 62% overlap between Google's first-page results and ChatGPT's cited sources. The correlation coefficient between Google rank and ChatGPT visibility? 0.034 — essentially zero. That means your SEO playbook isn't enough anymore. AI search engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews — use fundamentally different ranking signals. And with Bain repor