ChatGPT now rivals 20% of Google's searches

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ChatGPT search now rivals 20% of Google's volume LINK

• ChatGPT's volume of search-like queries has reached about one-fifth of Google's, according to OpenAI's Adam Fry, who said this makes ChatGPT larger than Bing, which holds 5% search share.
• ChatGPT counts a search each time someone asks a question and it looks up the web, which Fry said often happens with queries about people, places, finance, or health that need up-to-date, factual information.
• ChatGPT has grown from one billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users over the past two months, roughly 100 million new users every 30 days, while voice now reaches 250 million weekly users.

Democrats' win could reshape the AI and privacy rules you follow LINK

• Democrats won control of both the Senate and House in the elections held yesterday, closing the path Republicans had built toward a single federal standard that would override state data privacy and AI laws for at least the next two years.
• Republicans had wanted a comprehensive privacy bill and a White House framework to stop states from regulating AI, but the win means advertisers, publishers and AI companies now face the likely survival and expansion of the existing state-by-state regime.
• Democrats cannot write advertising and AI rules alone, since Trump keeps his veto and the Senate still needs 60 votes to pass most laws, so the main change is their new power over committee gavels, subpoenas and confirmations to bodies like the Federal Trade Commission.

Reddit is testing ads in its search results LINK

• Reddit has begun testing ad placements inside its own search results pages, a surface where the company previously ran no advertising, so a search for "espresso station" could surface ads for espresso machines, coffee beans or mugs.
• The ads match products to the context of what a person types rather than to an exact term, and the test is limited to a select group of eligible advertisers, with Reddit sharing no details on how placements are bought, priced or measured.
• The test comes as more than 80 million people search Reddit each week while referral traffic from outside search engines fell by over 1 million visits a week in October, letting Reddit sell ads against searches that happen on its own pages.

Your AI Overview clicks won't fully recover LINK

• Clicks from AI Overviews will not fully bounce back, Seer Interactive says, after organic click-through rates on searches with an AI summary climbed 85% between December 2025 and February this year, a leveling off rather than a true recovery.
• For searches showing an AI-generated summary, organic click-through nearly doubled from December to February, while searches without an AI Overview reached 3.82%, based on millions of queries across 53 brands.
• Being cited inside an AI Overview brought 120% more organic clicks per impression than sitting in one without a citation, yet those cited results still drew 38% fewer clicks than queries carrying no AI Overview at all.

Amazon will count 63% fewer of your ad impressions LINK

• Amazon Ads will stop counting display impressions on its own store the moment an ad begins downloading, switching on January 1, 2027 to count only when the ad reaches a shopper's screen, cutting counted impressions by about 63% on average.
• The rule covers Display, Video & Audio display ads across the Amazon Store, including homepage, product detail, search results and order pages, with slots lower on the page losing more counted impressions than those near the top.
• In Amazon's testing, advertisers saw return on ad spend rise and cost-per-action fall, though the notice frames the shift under reports and never says whether invoices, billed on a cost-per-thousand basis, change with the smaller count.

Strategies & Tactics

> How to find and fix your AEO keywords gap: Explains how to find AI search citation gaps by auditing customer questions and competitor coverage, then building direct answers where a brand is overlooked.

> 5 signals you need for better Google Ads forecasts in 2027: Build Google Ads forecasts from market demand, competitive pressure, and downstream customer value, not just last year's account history with a growth target slapped on.

> How to Write Content AI Can Summarize (Without Losing Impact): Write pages that lead with concrete operational details like pricing, timeframes, and named processes, because AI summaries strip out vague adjectives and preserve only measurable differentiators.

> Find Site Errors with AI before Ads Run: Scan campaign landing pages with AI tools before ads launch to catch broken links and sold-out products, then confirm findings with human testing.

> How to fund full-funnel retail media across three budgets: Coordinate brand, paid, and retail media budgets under a shared goal while keeping each team's spending authority and success measures separate.

> How to optimize for ChatGPT shopping: Make products appear in ChatGPT's shopping recommendations by letting its crawlers read plain-HTML product pages and submitting detailed feeds, since over a billion weekly users research purchases there.

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