How ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude choose the sources they cite, and what to do on each one.
October 2, 2026
What Google, Perplexity and Anthropic documentation says about how each AI searches for and cites sources: bots to allow, the effect of each block, Google-Extended, the type of
September 2, 2026
What OpenAI and Microsoft documentation says about how ChatGPT chooses the sites it cites: crawlers, Bing, IndexNow, location, ads and products, with data from Brazil and a step-by-step
September 1, 2026
What Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews are, how they choose sources, what the official July 2026 guide says to do and to ignore, the Search Console control
