Most advice about getting cited by AI search engines is written by people who have never measured a citation. We have. Since 19 May 2026 we've been running an automated polling rig against ChatGPT, Gemini and DuckDuckGo — 5,051 polls over 77 days, against 68 real buyer prompts in our own niche — logging every time our domain does (or doesn't) appear. This post is the raw findings: which engines cite most readily, how often a citation survives the next poll, and how little the three engines agree with each other.
What this covers
- What we ran: 5,051 polls, 3 engines, 77 days
- Finding 1: the three engines barely agree with each other
- Finding 2: DuckDuckGo is the easiest surface, ChatGPT the hardest
- Finding 3: a citation is not a ranking — it can vanish next poll
- The three engines side by side
- Methodology, briefly
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the data, tables and worked examples — is on our site: *We Ran 5,051 AI-Search Citation Polls in 77 Days. Here's What Actually Gets a B2B Site Cited*.
LeadsNow AI builds pay-per-result AI lead generation and answer-engine-optimisation systems in Australia.
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