Knowledge baseSourcesTom Wells (Peec AI)

Country analysis of 20 million search QFOs

Author Tom Wells (Peec AI) Date 2026-02-12 Model state 20M fan-outs, Oct 2025 to Jan 2026, five countries Open source →

Key findings

A longitudinal study over four months: fan-outs get longer, not more numerous; a large part switches to English, even for non-English prompts.

Checked against our data

The switch to English is visible for us and topic-dependent: entities and images English, local and news German. This is the most important number from the article for German websites, because an English fan-out queries an English corpus.

ClaimStatusEvidence
Word count per fan-out doubled from ~6 to ~12, count per prompt stable 2.3-2.8confirmedOur fast lines have 6-14 words (K2-01: 15), business lines shorter. Time course not yet measurable for us.
43% of fan-outs English; 78% of non-English prompts have at least one English fan-outconfirmedK6-01 and K11-01 fully English, K2-01 mixed, K1/K3/K5 German. Share from schema 14 as fanout-language-en-share.

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