50 Best Tweets About AI Search (2026)

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Klaas

@forgebitz · Jul 14, 2026

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now back to work using claude code, we created a 100% ai-generated comparison (listicle) website called surferstack we let claude research hundreds of saas companies to dynamically generate comparison pages based on what it could find on their website the goal was simple:… Read more

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Tim Soulo 🇺🇦

@timsoulo · Apr 8, 2026

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Google lost ~5% of traffic share in the past 10 months (35.11% → 30.53%). Everyone thinks AI search ate it. Well… ▪️ AI search: 0.22% → 0.26% (+0.04pp) ▪️ Social: 7.67% → 8.24% (+0.6pp) ▪️ Paid: 13.99% → 17.15% (+3.2pp) ^ that’s across ~75k websites in @Ahrefs’ panel. (HINT:… Read more

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Brodie Clark

@brodieseo · Jul 14, 2026

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Ecommerce SEO News: Google Merchant Center is (surprisingly) the first Google product to give query data for AI Overviews and AI Mode. I now have access to the new AI performance insights for one of my sub-accounts for a client. Here's what you need to know about this rollout:… Read more

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Neil Patel

@neilpatel · May 6, 2026

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I tracked which brands show up in ChatGPT answers and which ones don't, and what I found should change how you think about search entirely. Google's top ten results used to account for 76% of ChatGPT citations. That number has dropped to 38%, and 90% of the pages AI cites now… Read more

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signüll

@signulll · Jan 23, 2026

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ai overviews have actually made google search usable again. i almost never click through anymore though. that breaks the old content model entirely. if creators aren’t getting paid, the web becomes a free exhaust pipe for ai. which is unsustainable. this is why creator payouts… Read more

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The Crypto Intern

@ProofofIntern · Apr 15, 2026

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if you're ignoring reddit in 2026, you're about to get left behind. not only is it an untapped source for social marketing in general, but with the rise of AI it's about to become critical to have a reddit strategy. chatgpt, claude, and other AI search are pulling their answers… Read more

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Gagan Ghotra

@gaganghotra_ · Jun 3, 2026

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JUST IN 🚨 Google to show AI Search performance data in Search Console #SEO "To help you understand how pages from your site are shown, our new reports show the following information: Impressions: How often URLs from your site appeared in generative AI features in Search and… Read more

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Jainam Parmar

@aiwithjainam · Mar 16, 2026

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This Software engineer just built a Perplexity Pro alternative and open-sourced the whole thing. It's called MindSearch. A full multi-agent web search engine you can run yourself. On your own models. With your own search APIs. Here's how it actually works 👇 Most AI search… Read more

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Robby Stein

@rmstein · Feb 17, 2026

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New on Search: In AI Overviews and AI Mode, groups of links will automatically appear in a pop-up as you hover over them on desktop, so you can jump right into a website to learn more. And we’ll show more descriptive and prominent link icons within the response across both… Read more

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Jake Ward

@jakezward · Dec 2, 2025

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I analysed 66,796 sites to understand where their SEO traffic came from last month. (You can too at chatgpt-vs-google .com) Google still dominates at 40.31%. ChatGPT is just 0.24%. But here's what most people miss: Traffic isn't the ONLY metric that matters anymore.… Read more

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Chubby♨️

@kimmonismus · May 27, 2026

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I sat down with Robby Stein (@rmstein), Google’s VP of Product for Search, at @Google I/O. Robby is one of the most interesting product leaders in tech: he helped build Instagram Stories, Reels and Close Friends, and now leads core Google Search products including AI Overviews,… Read more

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Aleyda Solis 🕊️

@aleyda · Apr 1, 2026

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🚀 Remember how in SEO we say there's only so much we can do if the product is broken? AI search shifts this dynamic further: there's only so much optimization can do if the brand and product experience are weak. The core interaction model in traditional search is still largely a… Read more

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Aleyda Solis 🕊️

@aleyda · Mar 31, 2026

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🤖 The 10 Key Characteristics of (Long-Term) AI Search Winning Brands 👇 What makes a brand consistently show up and get recommended across AI search platforms? After analyzing the patterns, these are the 10 characteristics that AI search winning brands share: 1. Accessible AI… Read more

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Cody Schneider

@codyschneider · Jul 27, 2026

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some of the best content for AI search is best x for y keyword format why AI search fanout queries consume these like it is a religion how to find these fanout queries use data for seo api to find keywords related to your product then put that as prompts in promptwatch to… Read more

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Semrush

@semrush · Apr 22, 2026

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AI search platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity are changing how content gets discovered. But what makes one piece of content get cited while another gets ignored? To answer this, we analyzed thousands of citations and compared them to similar pages ranking in… Read more

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Harshil Tomar

@Hartdrawss · Jun 19, 2026

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We just built a full AEO pipeline for a US family office. To simply explain; AEO = Answer Engine Optimisation. Instead of ranking on Google, the goal is to get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini. Here’s the system we built: - Discovery Layer: Pulled quick-win… Read more

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Jake Ward

@jakezward · Mar 23, 2026

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We lost sleep over ChatGPT stealing SEO traffic, but what if Google is the real threat? Yesterday, I was reviewing Google results. Scrolled down looking for the organic pages. And kept scrolling… - 4 text ads (disguised as organic results) - AI Overview summarising the answer… Read more

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Glenn Gabe

@glenngabe · May 7, 2026

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Well, if the listicle situation is going to be addressed in AI Search, then fanouts could be one way to improve the situation -> Patterns in ChatGPT fanouts "Listicles consistently show up as top sources in AI search results, and the query fanout data finally explains why."… Read more

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Molly O’Shea

@MollySOShea · Jul 10, 2026

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Nikhil Benesch (@nikhilbenesch), CTO of @turbopuffer, the AI search engine powering retrieval for Cursor, Notion, Legora, & Anthropic.. says AI's search problem is getting massive: "We used to think in terms of gigabytes or terabytes." "Folks are coming up to me with not just… Read more

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Glen Allsopp 👾

@ViperChill · Mar 5, 2026

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Do Google's AI search competitors have a (growing) spam problem? By the metrics I have available, they're increasingly citing low-quality domains. Using Ahrefs Brand Radar, I analyzed the top 1,000 sites mentioned on each platform over the past three months. ChatGPT, Copilot,… Read more

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Semrush

@semrush · Jun 3, 2026

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SEO question, then vs now: Old → How do we rank higher? New → How do we become a trusted source everywhere AI looks? Rankings still matter. But AI answers pull from citations, mentions, and repeated signals far beyond your site. Example: LinkedIn already drives ~11% of AI… Read more

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Jeremy Moser

@jmoserr · Mar 31, 2026

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I talk to 35 new companies every month about SEO and GEO. Almost all of them are making the same data mistake...and they're building 2026 budgets around it. They all say the same thing: "AI search leads are so much better." When I ask how they arrived at that conclusion, it's… Read more

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Nick Fox

@thefox · Mar 9, 2026

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AI adoption on Search is breaking the “furniture” rule🪑 Typically people have a hard time adjusting to change, like when the furniture in a room is rearranged. But we’ve seen that people have adapted surprisingly quickly to AI in Search, like AI Overviews and AI Mode, because… Read more

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Marie Haynes

@Marie_Haynes · Mar 12, 2026

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"We think of AI Mode and AI Overviews as increasingly one and the same." "Today, the way we think about it is Search is becoming AI search, and the Gemini app is your personal assistant. Those areas have overlap for sure." The main point of this article is to share that Google… Read more

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JH Scherck

@JHTScherck · May 18, 2026

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Nuance that is often lost in the AEO vs trad search convo on the socials: Depending on you customer, AI search may be your most important digital surface... or not even a factor. Selling accounting software to local governments? Probably not a big focus. Selling agentic… Read more

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Andrea Bosoni

@theandreboso · Feb 18, 2026

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Yesterday I had an a-ha moment. Claude suggested a product to me out of the blue. I didn’t ask for it. I wasn’t searching for it. But it thought it made sense for what I was doing so it recommended I give it a try. We all talk about AI search but from a marketing perspective… Read more

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Ashley Peacock

@_ashleypeacock · Apr 10, 2026

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When using Cloudflare's AI Search, you can now select from a wider range of Workers AI models + limit website crawling using CSS selectors: - For text generation, GLM-4.7-Flash & Qwen3-30B-A3B are now available - For embeddings, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B & EmbeddingGemma-300M - When… Read more

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Tomasz Tunguz

@ttunguz · Jul 23, 2025

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The internet is about to look a whole lot more like the online advertising world. No, I don’t mean there’ll be more ads. In fact, I think there’ll be far fewer. But the technology stack for content distribution will mirror the architecture that has been implemented in the… Read more

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Glen Allsopp 👾

@ViperChill · Feb 26, 2026

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I'm biased, but I think companies are growing more optimistic about AI search. Context is important (let's not scare investors), but it feels like a shift. And I'm not just saying that because of these latest earnings calls. Of course, I shouldn't make light of the fact that… Read more

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Neil Patel

@neilpatel · Jul 2, 2026

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AI Overviews didn't break search. They exposed something that was already cracking. Featured snippets, People Also Ask, zero click answers, every one of those was Google reaching past the keyword for what the user actually meant. The crack was already there. AI just made it… Read more

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Nat Miletic

@natmiletic · Aug 3, 2026

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How to future-proof your site against AI search eating your clicks: 1. Sell something. Products, services, access. Make visiting mandatory. 2. Build tools and interactive resources that AI can't replicate. 3. Build a community or email list. Own the audience, not just the… Read more

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Poonam Soni

@CodeByPoonam · May 7, 2026

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Google Search just got 5 major AI upgrades. The way you browse the web just changed. Here’s what’s new 👇 1/ Explore new angles AI responses now suggest in-depth articles to dive deeper after every search. 2/ News subscriptions highlighted Your paid sources now show up labeled… Read more

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Peec AI

@peec_ai · Mar 23, 2026

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Which content types get cited most in AI search? We looked at over 1 million citations. On ChatGPT, listicles dominate. 52% hit a citation rate above 2.0. Product pages have high presence but lower citation rates. On Google AI Mode, category and product pages from official… Read more

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Glenn Gabe

@glenngabe · Jul 6, 2026

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Interesting case study and backs what @lilyraynyc published about the evolving situation with self-serving listicles -> Self-Promotional Content Works — Until It Backfires (AI SEO Experiment) Some takeaways: *When AI cited a conference-promoting page, it still skipped that… Read more

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Ryan Law

@thinking_slow · Jan 16, 2026

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everything you need to know about Google's AI Overviews (and how they impact your rankings and traffic)* - AI Overviews appear on roughly 21% of all Google search keywords worldwide, including about 16% of U.S. search queries. - Google’s AI Overviews are significantly cutting… Read more

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Peec AI

@peec_ai · Mar 25, 2026

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We looked at 1,056,727 AI citations. ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity. The interesting bit: your industry matters less than what the user is trying to do right now. Someone learning? Articles. Someone comparing? Listicles. Someone buying? Product pages. Sounds obvious but… Read more

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Gagan Ghotra

@gaganghotra_ · Mar 30, 2026

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Adding utm_source=ai-mode or gemini or ai-overviews to citation URLs is probably the easiest change that Google can do and help the whole SEO land exactly understand how much actual traffic is coming to their pages from these AI Search surfaces.

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Jan-Willem Bobbink

@jbobbink · Mar 19, 2026

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I read Google's internal docs from May 2025 that refused publishers granular AI controls. Now regulators forced their hand and they call it "exploring." In May 2025, Google deliberately decided not to give publishers the ability to opt out of AI Overviews separately from regular… Read more

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Yusuke

@yusukelp · Jun 23, 2026

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I started dogfooding AI visibility for LandingBoost. Perplexity already cited it once. Now I’m trying to make it repeatable across ChatGPT / Google AI / search. The loop: - find real landing page audit queries - improve pages / FAQ / schema - test AI answers - track what gets… Read more

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Berci Meskó, MD, PhD

@Berci · Mar 30, 2026

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A lot of medical and health-related websites have been experiencing lower visitor rates since Google introduced AI Overviews that appear at the top of search results. Simply, these try to answer the questions users have while doing searches for certain issues. Now, WebFX… Read more

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Ross Simmonds

@TheCoolestCool · May 18, 2026

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AI search pulls answers from Reddit whether you are there or not. Reddit pages are cited: • 5.3M times in Google AI Overviews. • 4M times by ChatGPT. • 5.5M times by Perplexity. Visibility without participation is still influence. Just not yours. https://t.co/CabIRcSQP0

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Haider Shawl

@hdxswx · Feb 9, 2026

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You are optimizing for AI search in the wrong way. Because ChatGPT doesn’t run one query. It fans your prompt out into multiple sub-queries behind the scenes (comparisons, constraints, alternatives, edge cases). Example prompt: “I’m looking for free e-signature software that… Read more

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Alex Napier Holland 🦍

@NapierHolland · Jun 4, 2026

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Most product marketers tell you to shove the product category in the headline. I disagree. Our goal is to help visitors understand the product. A category MIGHT help, but it depends. I reviewed this hero section for @peec_ai Their product category is 'AI Search Analytics'.… Read more

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Kaleigh Moore

@kaleighf · Jun 8, 2026

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The thing I keep coming back to about AI search: The further a signal sits from a brand's own control, the more LLMs seem to trust/weigh it when deciding what to cite. Authority, in other words, now flows toward people— not brands. The uncomfortable part is that it requires… Read more

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Ross Simmonds

@TheCoolestCool · Jul 28, 2026

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Reddit drives 20.8% of AI citations across B2B. In unbranded discovery? 30.9%. That’s where shortlists are built. Step 1: Identify key category queries. Step 2: Audit what AI cites. Step 3: Show up where those sources live. https://t.co/3BXgYU4Db0

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Krista Doyle

@kristakdoyle · May 4, 2026

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🤓 NEW RESEARCH: I spent the past month analyzing 33,000+ citations across 1,000 queries sourced from and modeled after real B2B buyer questions to get a snapshot of how third party sources are *really* showing up in AI search right now. The results are in. Here's what stood out:… Read more

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Kaleigh Moore

@kaleighf · Jul 29, 2026

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Creator AEO, the emerging term for creator-driven answer engine optimization, is the practice of earning AI citations through human expertise published on third-party surfaces. “Creator” can take many shapes here: LinkedIn creators, B2B influencers, customer advocates, and even… Read more

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Shawn Chauhan

@shawnchauhan1 · Mar 19, 2026

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25% of Tally's new signups now come from AI search discovery. ChatGPT is their number one referral source. Not Google. Not paid. Not influencers. AI search is not a future channel you prepare for. It is a present channel you are either in or not. The brands that treated this… Read more

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Vaishnavi

@_vmlops · Jun 2, 2026

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GOOGLE'S AI SEARCH IS PUSHING USERS AWAY AND DUCKDUCKGO IS WINNING turns out, not everyone wants AI answering their questions. after google's AI search overhaul: → duckduckgo's AI-free page (https://t.co/CDbji2cyC0) saw 3x more visits → overall app installs jumped ~33% → iOS… Read more

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Randall Kanna Franson

@RandallKanna · May 13, 2026

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Something I underestimated building Kelsey: People assume AI search is just “SEO but for ChatGPT.” It’s not. Traditional rankings definitely matter. But assistants also pull from: • Reddit • niche blog posts • random comparison sites • review content • random high trust… Read more