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AI Pulse

A live read on how answer engines are behaving this week, updated from our 180,000-prompt panel.

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4 engines
180k prompts
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This week

Panel readings

Coverage

68%

of tracked queries returned a generated answer

Up 4 points week on week

Citations

3.2

average sources cited per answer

Across all four engines

Overlap

41%

of citations went to the top-3 organic result

Ranking still matters

Volatility

12%

week-on-week citation churn

Median across categories

What moved

Notable shifts this week

Finance queries got longer answers

Median answer length in personal-finance prompts rose sharply, with more sources cited per answer.

Health prompts tightened

Fewer sources cited, weighted heavily toward institutional domains.

Retail comparison volatility

Category comparison prompts showed the highest source churn of any vertical.

Non-English coverage grew

Generated-answer coverage rose fastest in German and Japanese prompts.

Overall volatility steady

No engine showed an unusual shift in citation behaviour this week.

Method

How AI Pulse is measured

What is in the panel?

Around 180,000 prompts spanning twelve verticals, run against Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini on a fixed weekly schedule.

Is this specific to my site?

No — AI Pulse is a market-level read. Site-specific citation tracking is part of the AI Driven SEO product.