Answers
Straight, sourced answers to the AI-SEO questions people ask AI engines — each one a focused question, answered from the 2026 evidence.
How an answer gets cited
prompt Which index does ChatGPT use to cite pages?
ChatGPT finds candidate pages through Bing's index, then reads selected URLs with OAI-SearchBot1 before citing them.2
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