Ryan Charles

I'm pretty confident these are ChatGPT fan-out queries in Google Search Console. You can use this regex filter to check your own sites: (?i)(site:.*official|official.*site:) It checks for site: and "official" at the same time. It's not *all* ChatGPT queries, but it's the ones that contain both of those terms. I just used this across a few sites and I'm seeing the same pattern of many impressions, 0 clicks, and a whole lot of queries that look exactly like ChatGPT fan-outs in GSC.

Not only does Google need AI Mode to include ads before they can make AI Mode the default, but also - think about how aggressively Google currently incorporates ads into the search experience. Many years ago, there was a dark green border around ads and the labeling was clear - and over time, Google ads have gradually grown to look more and more like organic results. And there are now what - 4? 5? Even 6 ads above the fold? When people like me end up clicking on ads by mistake, that’s when you know things are bad 😂🫠 So not only does AI Mode need ads to be profitable, the integration of ads needs to be AS AGGRESSIVE as Google has been in recent years/months in the search experience. Kinda defeats the main point of AI Mode, no? Delivering a fast, ad-free, seamless experience to the user?