What Drives AI Citations? FAQ isn't what drives ChatGPT citations
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A study of 158,099 generative-search answers across two 90-day collections (consumer home internet and small B2B software) finds that ChatGPT citations depend mainly on the engine's own retrieval step, not on page features.