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508,000
508,000 -- citations analyzed from ai engines for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews (2026)
ReSO analyzed roughly 508,000 citations across 212 AI visibility audits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
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508,000
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Data Vintage
2026
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212
Evidence Quality
B
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95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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ReSO
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https://resollm.ai/blog/how-to-unstuck-your-b2b-funnel-at-the-finish-line/ ↗
Source Article
ReSO Blog | Inside the Future of AI Search & LLM Visibility
AI-generated content is already everywhere on the web. Ahrefs analysed 900,000 newly published pages and found that 74% contained some AI-generated content, while only 26% were classified as purely human-written.
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Since late August 2026, Google has been routing search-result cli…
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ReSO analysis of citations across 212 AI visibility audits
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ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews: 508,000 citations analyzed from ai engines. Source: ReSO (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-visibility-citations-analyzed-reso
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