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  "q": "chatgpt citations",
  "note": "Keyword match over verified facts and article titles. Read the source before you quote it.",
  "facts": [
    {
      "id": "reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility#2",
      "fact": "ChatGPT's share of Reddit citations pointing to translated pages dropped from 6.14% in April 2026 to 0.66% in May 2026.",
      "evidence": "ChatGPT's share of Reddit citations pointing to translated pages dropped from 6.14% in April to 0.66% in May.",
      "topic": "chatgpt-search",
      "source": {
        "title": "Translated Reddit Is Winning AI Citations.",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility/",
        "published": "2026-06-22"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.97,
      "canonical_fact_id": "reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility#2",
      "published": "2026-06-22",
      "age_days": 113,
      "possibly_outdated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility#1",
      "fact": "Across ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, and Gemini, 3,699,577 Reddit citations carried the translation parameter from March 1 to June 10, 2026.",
      "evidence": "We analyzed 64M+ Reddit citations between March 1 and June 10, 2026, across 20 different countries and four AI sources: ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, and Gemini. 3,699,577 Reddit citations carried ?tl=.",
      "topic": "ai-visibility-measurement",
      "source": {
        "title": "Translated Reddit Is Winning AI Citations.",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility/",
        "published": "2026-06-22"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.96,
      "canonical_fact_id": "reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility#1",
      "published": "2026-06-22",
      "age_days": 113,
      "possibly_outdated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "how-chatgpt-uses-the-public-suffix-list#1",
      "fact": "ChatGPT's browser-based source code contains explicit references to Public Suffix List processing for citations and domain handling.",
      "evidence": "Through technical analysis of ChatGPT's browser-based source code, I discovered explicit references to Public Suffix List processing in their citation and domain handling systems.",
      "topic": "chatgpt-search",
      "source": {
        "title": "How ChatGPT Uses the Public Suffix List to Treat Domains & Subdomains Differently",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/how-chatgpt-uses-the-public-suffix-list/",
        "published": "2025-11-10"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.87,
      "canonical_fact_id": "how-chatgpt-uses-the-public-suffix-list#1",
      "published": "2025-11-10",
      "age_days": 337,
      "possibly_outdated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "reddit-is-dead-unseen-by-seos-google-translates-proxy-pages-pull-606m-visits-monthly#3",
      "fact": "ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini citations sometimes link to Google Translate versions of Reddit rather than original sources.",
      "evidence": "AI citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini sometimes go to Google Translate versions of Reddit instead of original sources.",
      "topic": "retrieval-and-ranking",
      "source": {
        "title": "Reddit Is Dead, Unseen by SEOs: Google Translate’s Proxy Pages Pull 606M Visits Monthly",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-is-dead-unseen-by-seos-google-translates-proxy-pages-pull-606m-visits-monthly/",
        "published": "2025-05-20"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.67,
      "canonical_fact_id": "reddit-is-dead-unseen-by-seos-google-translates-proxy-pages-pull-606m-visits-monthly#3",
      "published": "2025-05-20",
      "age_days": 511,
      "possibly_outdated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "want-real-short-term-ai-visibility-hack-bad-actors-hands#3",
      "fact": "ChatGPT sometimes generated an unregistered hostname for a site: fanout while citations still pointed to the real official domain.",
      "evidence": "Citations still go to branddomain.com. The hidden fanout asks for site: brand-domain.com, or a country or .org variant of the same name. That guessed host was never registered.",
      "topic": "retrieval-and-ranking",
      "source": {
        "title": "Want a real short-term AI visibility hack? Or in a bad actor's hands, becomes a real blackhat GEO hack?",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/want-real-short-term-ai-visibility-hack-bad-actors-hands/",
        "published": "2026-08-28"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.93,
      "canonical_fact_id": "want-real-short-term-ai-visibility-hack-bad-actors-hands#3",
      "published": "2026-08-28",
      "age_days": 46,
      "possibly_outdated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap#1",
      "fact": "Reddit's share of ChatGPT citations fell from 4.6 percent in early August to 0.23 percent by August 21, a 95 percent drop.",
      "evidence": "By August 21 it sat at 0.23 percent, a 95 percent drop from its early August level.",
      "topic": "chatgpt-search",
      "source": {
        "title": "Reddit lost most of its visibility in ChatGPT, and the site parameter filled the gap",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap/",
        "published": "2026-08-21"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.96,
      "canonical_fact_id": "reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap#1",
      "published": "2026-08-21",
      "age_days": 53,
      "possibly_outdated": false
    },
    {
      "id": "chatgpt-is-using-reciprocal-rank-fusion-rrf#2",
      "fact": "Metehan Yesilyurt's Chrome DevTools analysis found a standard Reciprocal Rank Fusion implementation in ChatGPT's search code.",
      "evidence": "While inspecting ChatGPT's search implementation, I found this revealing code:\nThis confirms ChatGPT uses standard RRF to combine search results.",
      "topic": "chatgpt-search",
      "source": {
        "title": "Is RRF the Secret to Dominating AI Citations? I Decoded ChatGPT's Ranking Formula",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/chatgpt-is-using-reciprocal-rank-fusion-rrf/",
        "published": "2025-07-22"
      },
      "kind": "mechanism",
      "quality": 0.91,
      "canonical_fact_id": "chatgpt-is-using-reciprocal-rank-fusion-rrf#2",
      "published": "2025-07-22",
      "age_days": 448,
      "possibly_outdated": true
    },
    {
      "id": "reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap#2",
      "fact": "In the week of August 10, 26.2 percent of observed ChatGPT queries used a site: parameter, representing 3.9 million of 14.9 million queries.",
      "evidence": "In the week of August 10 it hit 26.2 percent. That week, 3.9 million of the 14.9 million ChatGPT queries we observed carried a site: parameter.",
      "topic": "chatgpt-search",
      "source": {
        "title": "Reddit lost most of its visibility in ChatGPT, and the site parameter filled the gap",
        "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap/",
        "published": "2026-08-21"
      },
      "kind": "finding",
      "quality": 0.97,
      "canonical_fact_id": "reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap#2",
      "also_reported_in": [
        {
          "id": "want-real-short-term-ai-visibility-hack-bad-actors-hands#1",
          "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/want-real-short-term-ai-visibility-hack-bad-actors-hands/"
        }
      ],
      "published": "2026-08-21",
      "age_days": 53,
      "possibly_outdated": false
    }
  ],
  "read_next": [
    {
      "title": "Is RRF the Secret to Dominating AI Citations? I Decoded ChatGPT's Ranking Formula",
      "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/chatgpt-is-using-reciprocal-rank-fusion-rrf/",
      "markdown": "https://metehan.ai/api/post/chatgpt-is-using-reciprocal-rank-fusion-rrf.md",
      "description": "Is RRF the Secret to Dominating AI Citations? I Decoded ChatGPT's Ranking Formula"
    },
    {
      "title": "Reddit lost most of its visibility in ChatGPT, and the site parameter filled the gap",
      "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap/",
      "markdown": "https://metehan.ai/api/post/reddit-lost-most-its-visibility-chatgpt-site-filled-gap.md",
      "description": "Its share of ChatGPT citations fell 95 percent in two weeks. Here is what the data shows so far."
    },
    {
      "title": "Translated Reddit Is Winning AI Citations.",
      "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility/",
      "markdown": "https://metehan.ai/api/post/reddit-machine-translated-pages-ai-visibility.md",
      "description": "Based on 65M+ citations across 20 countries"
    },
    {
      "title": "How ChatGPT Uses the Public Suffix List to Treat Domains & Subdomains Differently",
      "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/how-chatgpt-uses-the-public-suffix-list/",
      "markdown": "https://metehan.ai/api/post/how-chatgpt-uses-the-public-suffix-list.md",
      "description": "How ChatGPT Uses the Public Suffix List to Treat Domains & Subdomains Differently"
    },
    {
      "title": "ChatGPT's Personal Memory Affects Everything In Responses & OpenAI is Using Google Analytics",
      "url": "https://metehan.ai/blog/chatgpts-personal-memory-affects-everything-in-responses-openai-is-using-google-analytics/",
      "markdown": "https://metehan.ai/api/post/chatgpts-personal-memory-affects-everything-in-responses-openai-is-using-google-analytics.md",
      "description": "ChatGPT's Personal Memory Affects Everything In Responses & OpenAI is Using Google Analytics"
    }
  ]
}