- What actually wins in Perplexity: a study of 1,195 citationsby David ChamberlainPerplexity citations by source type Share of 1,195 citations across six industry verticals. Bars stack to 100%. 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Industrial Staffing n=253 79% 8% Vertical SaaS n=219 67% 15% 14% Logistics & Freight n=190 50% 14% 20% 13% Home Services (Consumer) n=232 49% 10% 35% Professional Services n=132 39% 8% 29% 22%… Read more: What actually wins in Perplexity: a study of 1,195 citations
- GEO Is Not AEO. Here’s What We’re Still Figuring Out.
by David ChamberlainTWT News — GEO GEO Is Not AEO. Here’s What We’re Still Figuring Out. Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization get used interchangeably. They shouldn’t be. One is about being cited. The other is about being part of the generated answer itself — and the strategies are different enough to matter. Tampa Web Technologies… Read more: GEO Is Not AEO. Here’s What We’re Still Figuring Out. - The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different
by David ChamberlainTWT News — AEO Analysis The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different The industry talks about three AI engines as three separate playbooks. The data says otherwise. Perplexity and Gemini share roughly 80% of their citation philosophy. For most brands, the real AEO planning question is not three-way —… Read more: The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different - The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Differentby David ChamberlainTWT News — AEO Analysis The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different The industry talks about three AI engines as three separate playbooks. The data says otherwise. Perplexity and Gemini share roughly 80% of their citation philosophy. For most brands, the real AEO planning question is not three-way —… Read more: The Two AEO Lanes: Why Perplexity and Gemini Are More Alike Than Different
- Google and AI Overviews Are Using Completely Different Rulebooks
by David ChamberlainTWT News SEO · Original Research Fluke Ranked #1. Gemini Cited a Regional Motor Shop. Four Queries That Reveal How Google and AI Overviews Are Using Completely Different Rulebooks. We ran four queries in incognito, recorded every Gemini AI Overview citation and every top-10 organic blue link, and compared them domain by domain. The overlap… Read more: Google and AI Overviews Are Using Completely Different Rulebooks - AI Engines Are Writing The Tesla Narrative
by David ChamberlainTWT News Research & Analysis · AI Search · Brand Entity Control Tesla Dissolved Its PR Department to Control the Narrative. AI Engines Are Writing That Narrative Anyway. A structured query study across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity finds that Tesla maintains strong entity control over exactly one category of information: financial disclosures. Across press contacts,… Read more: AI Engines Are Writing The Tesla Narrative - The “Expand Your Footprint” Advice Is Producing Citation Dependency, Not Citation Authority by David ChamberlainTWT News Research & Analysis · AI Search · Work Boot & Industrial Sectors The “Expand Your Footprint” Advice Is Producing Citation Dependency, Not Citation Authority — Data from 9 Work Boot Brands Across 3 AI Engines Widely circulated guidance tells brands that AI engines rarely cite their own domains, so the solution is more… Read more: The “Expand Your Footprint” Advice Is Producing Citation Dependency, Not Citation Authority
