Knowledge baseSourcesDanny Goodwin (Search Engine Land), data by Suganthan Mohanadasan

ChatGPT citations change: hidden search pipelines

Author Danny Goodwin (Search Engine Land), data by Suganthan Mohanadasan Date 2026-07-08 Model state Data June/July 2026, before result_source was removed Open source →

Key findings

Summary of the pipeline shares from Mohanadasan's data and the instability of sources on repetition.

Checked against our data

The shares can no longer be measured directly after the field was removed; the signature method yields a markedly higher scrape share for us, because news and price questions are over-represented in the prompt set. The instability we confirm.

ClaimStatusEvidence
Labrador 88.1%, Bright 9.9%, Oxylabs 1.7%, SERP 0.3% of hitsoutdatedField result_source gone. By hit signature in our data: index for 13 of 19 searching questions, scrape for 6 (news, prices, one local prompt), 2026-08-22.
11.6% of prompts switch their primary source on repetitionconfirmedDomain sets change between 21 and 22 Aug for nearly every question; metric domain-count and Jaccard distance within the noise band.

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