ChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches
ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more.
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ChatGPT names brands in its own search queries before it fetches anything. Being in that query is worth 33 times more.
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