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title: "How ChatGPT and Google cite the web."
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# How ChatGPT and Google cite the web.

AI search citation data: how ChatGPT and Google cite the web. Top domains, social, UGC, news publishers, health, and US retailers.
Rankings of the domains ChatGPT and Google cite, and the split between the two. Updated October 8, 2026.

This data is accumulated from multiple sources and internal training data, which helps us get the client cited.

Google 95.6% · ChatGPT 4.4%.

## Who the answer names.

Domains that show up when ChatGPT and Google cite the web.

- [Top cited domains](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/top-cited-domains.md): The ten domains cited most often across ChatGPT and Google.
- [Top social sources](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/top-social-sources.md): YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the other social hosts in the ranking.
- [Top UGC sources](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/top-ugc-sources.md): Reddit, Quora, Wikipedia, and Stack Overflow when they are cited.
- [Top news publishers](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/top-news-publishers.md): Editorial outlets that reached the ranking.
- [US health sources](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/us-health-sources.md): Clinics, the CDC, and health publishers in the ranking.

## Who gets the product mention.

Retailers and brands that show up when the answer is a product.

- [US retailers](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/us-retailers.md): Stores and brands in the shopping ranking.

## Where the mentions sit.

How the mentions split between ChatGPT and Google.

- [ChatGPT and Google](https://shoutrank.com/data-studies/platform-mix.md): How the mentions split between Google and ChatGPT.

Each industry chart names one of these rankings as its source.

Perplexity and Gemini are not in this split. An AI Overview coverage rate is not published here as if it were measured.