ChatGPT Gets Googled More Than YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok That felt impossible. For instance, YouTube has been the internet’s default video platform for nearly two decades. It’s frequently dubbed the second-largest search engine. So I asked Xibeijia, Ahrefs’ superstar data scientist, to pull our data and double-check. Turns out,…Read more ›

ChatGPT Gets Googled More Than YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok #DataStudies

The 100 Most Searched People on Google in 2026 These are the 100 most searched people, along with their monthly search volumes. In almost every industry, there are celebrities, professionals, or influencers that other people want to emulate. For example, an amateur tennis player might want to know which…Read more ›

The 100 Most Searched People on Google in 2026 #DataStudies

Top Google Searches (January 2026) Below are lists of the top 100 most popular searches and questions in the US and worldwide, pulled from our database of 28.7 billion keywords: We removed all NSFW queries from this list. What you see above are the top…Read more ›

Top Google Searches (January 2026) #DataStudies

Are AI Mode and AI Overviews Just Different Versions of the Same Answer? (730K Responses Studied) But after analyzing 730,000 response pairs, we found something unexpected: AI Mode and AI Overviews reach very similar conclusions (86% semantic similarity) while citing different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap). This matters because it suggests these aren’t just a “short…Read more ›

Are AI Mode and AI Overviews Just Different Versions of the Same Answer? (730K Responses Studied) #AISearch #DataStudies

Top Brand Visibility Factors in ChatGPT, AI Mode, and AI Overviews (75k Brands Studied) Let’s get into it. We studied two new factors in our research this time around: “YouTube mentions” and “YouTube mention impressions”—using newly available data in Ahrefs Brand Radar. Both correlated more strongly with AI visibility than anything else, beating even…Read more ›

Top Brand Visibility Factors in ChatGPT, AI Mode, and AI Overviews (75k Brands Studied) #AISearch #DataStudies

I Ran an AI Misinformation Experiment. Every Marketer Should See the Results Almost every AI I tested used the fake info—some eagerly, some reluctantly. The lesson is: in AI search, the most detailed story wins, even if it’s false. AI will talk about your brand no matter what, and if you don’t…Read more ›

I Ran an AI Misinformation Experiment. Every Marketer Should See the Results #AISearch #DataStudies

Short vs. Long Content in AI Overviews: The Data Says Both Work For instance, this study of only 20 brands (narrow sample size) is proclaiming that content needs 10,000+ words to be cited by AI. I’ve also seen others insist very short content (250–500 words) is the future for visibility in AI,…Read more ›

Short vs. Long Content in AI Overviews: The Data Says Both Work #AISearch #DataStudies

43 B2B SEO Statistics for 2025 We pulled the most recent, B2B-specific stats and organized them around the most important things in B2B SEO. Below are the stats worth citing in 2025. Organic search is still a top B2B discovery and pipeline driver. AI may have…Read more ›

43 B2B SEO Statistics for 2025 #DataStudies #GeneralSEO

6/10: Measurement and observation are discursive practices, laden with theoretical assumptions. The paper underscores how instruments and mathematical models construct “facts,” with Big Data amplifying these dynamics. #ScientificPractice #DataStudies

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OPEN CALL: A SOCIAL SCIENCE OF DATABASES: BUILDING METAPHYSICAL MACHINES | Dare | Data and the Healthcare ‘Revolution’ – DARE for short – explores the intersection of data, care and learning in the er...

#DataStudies and #HistTech folks! Check out @0404am.bsky.social's forthcoming workshop 'A Social Science of Databases: Building Metaphysical Machines' dare.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...

📢 La académica Patricia Peña participará en el Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop de Oxford 🏛️🌎. Peña participará en la primera jornada en estudios críticos de Internet y datos desde perspectivas latinoamericanas.

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Sharing special issue love: We invite contributions to discuss the mediation of knowledge practices and planetary matter through data infrastructures.

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Can AI deliver advice that is judgement-free for science policy? Letter to the Editor

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Short thing on the use of AI for policy advice and why it shouldn't be considered a way of creating judgement-free policy.

Now out in the Correspondence section with Francesco Barone-Adesi: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

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