ChatGPT does not behave like one stable search surface. A June 2026 analysis of 100 prompts found that only 25.6% of cited domains overlapped between minimal and high reasoning modes, while higher reasoning lifted citation rate from 50% to 68% and average sources per cited answer from 2.6 to 4.5. citeturn2view0turn2view1 For SEO and GEO teams, that means a single AI visibility report can hide the real picture: the content that wins fast answers is often not the content that wins deeper, multi-step reasoning. citeturn2view1turn3view0
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