Visibian HQ newsroomhttps://visibianhq.com/news/News and research from Visibian.en ChatGPT looks for brands' own sites more, and cites Reddit 88% less: what brands can dohttps://visibianhq.com/news/chatgpt-brand-sites-reddit/https://visibianhq.com/news/chatgpt-brand-sites-reddit/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchAhrefs studied 66.6 million ChatGPT answers. Searching inside one site, ChatGPT mostly picked a brand's own, and it cited Reddit far less. What brands can do. AI search in October 2026: GPT-6, Gemini 4, Claude 5.5 and what brands can dohttps://visibianhq.com/news/ai-search-october-2026/https://visibianhq.com/news/ai-search-october-2026/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchNew models behind ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, more links and more ads in AI search, and a week of missing ChatGPT visits. What changed, and what to do. New study: Amazon, eBay and Airbnb shut AI crawlers out. Most big companies let them in.https://visibianhq.com/news/big-brands-ai-crawlers/https://visibianhq.com/news/big-brands-ai-crawlers/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchWe read the robots.txt of every S&P 500 company's website. Only 5% shut out an AI crawler, a quarter of the rate among the most visited websites. New study: what the top 1,000 websites let AI crawlers readhttps://visibianhq.com/news/ai-crawlers-study/https://visibianhq.com/news/ai-crawlers-study/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchOne in five of the most visited websites shuts out at least one AI crawler while still letting Google in. Our first study, with the results for every site. Google opens AI Mode and Gemini to company apps: what brands can dohttps://visibianhq.com/news/google-connected-apps/https://visibianhq.com/news/google-connected-apps/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchOn 28 October Google opened a preview that lets a business build an app for AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app. How it works, and what a brand can do. The EU orders Google to share search data with AI chatbots: what brands can dohttps://visibianhq.com/news/eu-google-search-data/https://visibianhq.com/news/eu-google-search-data/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchFrom January 2027 Google must share anonymised search data with rival search engines in the EU, AI chatbots included. Google has appealed. What a brand can do. Google's AI Mode ads spread beyond the US: what brands can dohttps://visibianhq.com/news/ai-mode-ads-more-countries/https://visibianhq.com/news/ai-mode-ads-more-countries/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000ResearchOn 28 October Google took ads in AI Mode to 10 more countries and began showing them on follow-up questions in the US. What a brand can do now. Introducing Visibian Research: how AI assistants recommend brands, in the openhttps://visibianhq.com/news/introducing-visibian-research/https://visibianhq.com/news/introducing-visibian-research/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000CompanyOur research on brands in AI answers, plain explainers of how AI assistants work, and our company news. What we will publish here, and how.