chatgpt is now indexing the web
they're indexing the web like google
researchers found its name in ChatGPT's traffic called Labrador
from May 21 to July 21, every search result in ChatGPT carried a label for where it came from
three of the labels were scraping services that pull Google results. the fourth was Labrador, which is OpenAI's own index
a few things stood out to me
it barely overlaps with Bing. Researchers ran the same searches on both, and only about 1.5% of Labrador's results were in Bing's top 20
if you've been treating your Bing rankings as your ChatGPT rankings, they're not the same thing.
free users mostly get Labrador
in the default Instant mode, ChatGPT didn't open a single page in 93% of answers
it answered from a stored snippet of about 200 characters
Paid Thinking mode is different
about 75% of its results came from scraped Google, and it actually reads the pages
your snippet comes from your H1 and the text right around it
ChatGPT ignores your meta description, and the snippet doesn't change until the page gets re-indexed
updating a page doesn't update ChatGPT. it keeps a cached copy of your page. pages nobody asks about can stay stale for months. it also doesn't run JavaScript, so anything that loads with JS isn't there
OpenAI runs three separate bots. GPTBot collects training data. OAI-SearchBot decides whether you show up in ChatGPT search. ChatGPT-User fetches a page live during a chat. I keep seeing sites that blocked all three to stay out of training and then wonder why ChatGPT never cites them
so what I'd do:
allow OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt.
make sure your H1 still makes sense if someone reads only that line
answer the question in your first paragraph
put the date and author in visible text near the top
render your content on the server
ChatGPT still mixes in Google and Bing results. But OpenAI is already testing "prefer our own index" in shopping, so I'd expect more answers to come from Labrador over time
Research credit: Peec AI, Search Engine Land, RESONEO, a lot of X posts
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AI search explained
ranking on chatgpt vs claude vs gemini
Claude = Brave Search
Gemini / AI Overviews = Google
ChatGPT = a hot mess of bing + its own index + google + other feeds
Brave is on Anthropic's subprocessor list, and there's a BraveSearchParams field inside Claude. Studies found about 79–87% of the URLs Claude cites come from Brave's top 10 organic results, and Claude barely re-ranks them. If you rank on Brave, you get cited
with that said Claude only searches on about 37% of prompts. ChatGPT searches on about 90%. Claude looks things up when a query needs fresh info, rankings, a location or a comparison. Otherwise it answers from training data
gemini
page one on google, your in gemini. pretty simple
chatgpt, high on the pretty crazy scale
It started on Bing, and some of that is still there. But OpenAI now has its own index, built by OAI-SearchBot, plus third-party scrapers and partners like Yelp and TripAdvisor. How closely it matches any one search engine's top results is low and keeps changing.
When you ask Claude and ChatGPT the same prompt, only 8–20% of their citations overlap
So being dominant in one engine doesn't mean you show up in the others.
What to do about it:
Track Brave rankings separately. If you want Claude citations, this is your most direct lever. Submit your URLs to Brave directly so they get picked up faster.
For ChatGPT
Don't skip Bing. It's cheap insurance for ChatGPT: set up Bing Webmaster Tools, turn on IndexNow and allow OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt.
also go past rankings. Get brand mentions, write structured and authoritative pages, and get lots of other sources saying the same things about you.
Write for the prompts that trigger search. Claude mostly searches on comparisons, "best X," recent news and local queries. Build pages for those.
Remember when people optimized for Google and Bing separately? That's basically back
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new podcast episode out and you'll learn...
how the most bloated software with extensive API endpoints is now arbitrage
spent ten years hearing that salesforce is bloated enterprise garbage and you should buy something clean instead. attio, hubspot, whatever shipped most recently
changed my mind on this about six months ago and i've bought software differently ever since
you can plug the salesforce CLI into claude code and provisioned user security settings from the terminal
that sounds boring unless you're a salesforce admin
what it actually means is every one of those legacy endpoints, all the metadata about what each object does, all that documentation nobody wanted to read
an agent consumes all of it fine. the ugly admin surface that made salesforce miserable to click through is the surface a model needs to get work done
we ran hubspot at a previous company. nice UI. you hit a wall the second you want to do something through the API that you can do in the app
so now i ask one question before buying anything
can i do everything through the API that i can do in the UI
if the answer is no it's off the list, doesn't matter how good the product looks
and if i need an interface i'll build one.
cost of code is basically zero, my team gets the exact view they need when they need it
listen to the full episode at the link
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use affiliate tactics for real businesses
line your pockets
all marketing is now code
i can't express to you how stupidly powerful claude code is for SEO with an .env file containing your keywords everywhere API key and your dataforseo API key
some things you can do for your saas company
pull your full keyword universe using keywords everywhere's related keywords and people also search for endpoints then send that entire list to dataforseo's SERP API to see who's actually ranking and where the gaps are. full content calendar with clustering and prioritization
generate programmatic landing pages at scale. if you're a saas serving 20 industries you hit keywords everywhere for the long tail variations per vertical then check dataforseo for difficulty and SERP features on each one and claude code just generates unique pages with the right semantic terms and schema markup already baked in
link building using dataforseo's domain intersection endpoint that shows you every site linking to your competitors but not to you. pull backlink profiles for your top 5 competitors run the intersection find the gap scrape contact info and draft personalized outreach emails referencing the specific page they link to. entire pipeline in 8 minutes
build internal linking maps using keywords everywhere's related keyword data to create topical relevance clusters then have claude code generate the actual linking structure across your site. not random links. real semantic relationships that google rewards
run a full technical audit using dataforseo's on-page API and have claude code automatically generate the fix for every issue it finds. missing canonicals broken schema thin content orphan pages. it finds the problem and writes the code to fix it
if you want this get it below
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friends dont let friend do n8n
for GTM or marketing or growth
go straight to code
just pick a business vertical
tattoo removal
permanent makeup
nutrition coaching
lactation consulting
med spas
build vertical agent software for them that manages their website handles form submissions does chat support automatically grows their google maps listing impressions has scheduling handles phone calls
then have agents run your gooogle ads facebook ads cold email SEO AI search social media management
and you have a $80k MRR business
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This is actually the way. A year ago we started building the GTM super app at Rippling…today we have over 2,500 internal users across sales, marketing, FDE, analytics, finance, ops powering more use cases than we could have imagined.
Our leverage wasn’t necessarily the app itself, but the mono repo that managed applications, data pipelines, jobs, storage, evals, ML models in one place. We can build new agents through Codex sessions with CLI tools to bring in external context from our warehouse, jira, docs and ship it in less than a week.
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last week went on gregs pod
you probably missed it bc you're super busy
here's everything you'll learn
LinkedIn engagement is a hand-raise signal, beats firmographics
Track 10–20 category outliers, get 80% industry coverage
Use your for-you feed, not search, sourcing creators
Business accounts work as lead sources, not just people
Apify API Maestro actors: most stable LinkedIn scrapers
Post reactions plus post comments = full engager list
Daily cron pulls net-new posts, then extracts engagers
ICP-fit research happens before enrichment, not after
Waterfall enrichment: cheapest accurate source first, expensive last
Origami aggregates the entire waterfall behind one call
LeadMagic specifically for mobile phone number enrichment
MillionVerifier before sending, or deliverability dies fast
Buying broker contact data is legal; usage rules differ
Burner domains protect your core domain deliverability
Four domain buckets: cold, marketing, transactional, business
Roughly $200/month total to start sending 10k
Instantly webhooks push positive replies to your agent
Inbox agent answers questions, drives toward booked demos
Program six-month re-touches to revive gone-cold leads
Wire calendar access so agent verifies actual bookings
Agent equals code, thinking loop, live data stream
Don't pay tokens for what cheap CPU does
Agent frameworks are usually bloat for finite problems
Model the human's real process, not autonomous god-box
Organic: interviews, sales calls, Slack, Notion, Gong
"Write good LinkedIn content" produces mid, flaggable slop
Best content is already trapped in internal conversations
Ordinal schedules across accounts, feeds analytics back in
Analytics stream tells agent what to snowball or remix
Repost proven winners every 90 days, never daily
Find what market wants, then build; same for content
LinkedIn paid impressions run ~$22 per thousand — earned media
Topic-based pages work when personal brand isn't appealing
Timestamps
2:28 — Agent one: signal-based cold outbound
9:11 — Apify scraping and extracting engagers
15:47 — Waterfall enrichment, validation, compliance
21:40 — Inbox infrastructure, sending, inbox-managing agent
31:41 — Agent two: organic LinkedIn content engine
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