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ChatGPT shows adverts for a quarter of commercial search queries

A preliminary American study shows that ChatGPT serves ads about as often as Google AI Mode does. That happens in somewhere between 25 and 30 per cent of all commercial search queries.

ChatGPT shows adverts for a quarter of commercial search queries

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A preliminary American study shows that ChatGPT serves ads about as often as Google AI Mode does.

That happens in somewhere between 25 and 30 per cent of all commercial search queries.

That is what SEO specialist SE Ranking asserts on the basis of 50,000 prompts in 20 different categories.

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A preliminary American study shows that ChatGPT serves ads about as often as Google AI Mode does. That happens in somewhere between 25 and 30 per cent of all commercial search queries. That is what SEO specialist SE Ranking asserts on the basis of 50,000 prompts in 20 different categories.

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