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I checked whether ChatGPT can cite the top 50 news sites. 38 are invisible — most by accident.

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Why this ranksResearch Analysis
44TS ScoreImpact + Innovation, combined
IMPACT52
INNOVATION35

Our take: Empirical analysis of ChatGPT citation gaps; useful data but not novel finding.

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Thirty-eight of the top 50 news sites block AI retrieval agents in their robots.txt files, making them invisible to ChatGPT citations despite their Google search rankings.

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