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What ChatGPT's Evolving Fan-Out Queries Reveal About Site Trust and Search Quality

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Recent research suggests ChatGPT prioritizes fan-out searches to already-trusted domains as a spam-reduction strategy.

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SEOFOMO News reports on emerging patterns in how ChatGPT handles fan-out searches, noting that the AI appears to scope its results toward sites it already trusts—potentially using the site: operator as a method to reduce spammy content. Industry research cited in the piece offers clues about how AI-driven search systems filter and rank results.

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