Is getting mentioned by AI the same as getting recommended?
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A brand might appear frequently in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's being recommended as the best choice.
There's a difference between being listed among several options and being positioned as the solution a buyer should consider.
It's one of the distinctions we're exploring with ReSO AI as we help teams understand their visibility across AI-generated answers.
If you were measuring your brand's AI visibility, would you care more about how often you're mentioned or how often you're actually recommended?
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Recommended, and measured per question rather than as one overall share. In our test (960 answers from four models to 48 "which X is best" questions) we counted whether the model actually recommended a brand. That tracked closely with how many third-party pages in Google's top 10 mentioned it: about 19% of answers with none of those pages, 71% with six or more.
So next to each recommendation I'd log which pages the model cited. My guess is that a mention without a recommendation often means you're in the sources but not near the top of them, and that's a different fix than not being in the sources at all.