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  "headline": "What Happens When You Launch a Website Without Google or Bing? (AI Citation Test)",
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  "datePublished": "2025-07-18T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "articleBody": "I conducted an indexing experiment for ChatGPT, and the results were a bit surprising.\n\nMy goal was to see whether OpenAI shows any kind of citation display **without relying on Google or Bing**.\n\nI purchased a new domain. Normally, I use WordPress, but this time I wanted to try a different setup and reduce server MS latency, so I used **Cloudflare Workers & Pages**. I connected it to my GitHub and started building with **Astro**.\n\nI generated 6 meaningless blog posts using AI and added them to the blog.\n\nI didn’t care much about the title, meta description, or other on-page SEO specifically. I just wanted to be sure about my blog posts looking unique. The homepage and the /blog page title were the same.\n\nAnyway, one of the questions in my mind was: *What happens if I ping OpenAI’s web_search module?* Would it work like submitting a URL in Search Console? Would there be any reaction within the first 24 hours?\n\n**Result: No. It failed.**\n\nI tried again for two more days and then gave up. I had added the content on **July 8**. I only used **IndexNow**. After 3 days, there were still **zero indexed pages**.\n\nToday is **July 18**, and I decided to check again. I never verified the site with Google Search Console. I hadn’t added Google Analytics either, until today.\n\nAnd yet… somehow, the site **got indexed by Google and Bing**.\n\n![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Google-index.png)\n\n![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/bing-index.png)\n\n![](/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/chatgpt-sources-scaled.png)\n\nCheck my ChatGPT query here: https://chatgpt.com/share/687a0a32-641c-8011-8594-8f7b8e39eeb3\n\n- **Google**: 3 pages\n- **Bing**: 1 page (sometimes 2 pages, HTTP and HTTPS homepage results).\n- **ChatGPT (sources)**: 3 pages shown (Meta Descriptions are same as Google)\n\nI can’t definitively say that **ChatGPT only uses Google results**, because I haven’t tested this with multiple websites.\n\nBut this is the outcome I have for now.\n\nYou can leave your comments here on LinkedIn and [X thread](https://x.com/metehan777/status/1946134332738838532), also below(the comments section)",
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