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PractitionerLily Ray, 17 Aug 2026

For facts, ChatGPT fan-out queries go to official brand sites, while for opinions and product reviews, they favor Reddit and review platforms.

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This is the author's reading of what she observed rather than a measured split, and no shares are attached to any of the routes. The piece sets them out in more detail: Reddit, including specific subreddits, for opinions and product reviews; .gov and sometimes .org for health and legal questions; the brand's own site for specs and pricing.
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Sample:
Mixed and not standardized. The article combines the author's own observations with third-party studies, including about 4,000 prompts in one cited dataset, 27 conversations and 3,554 retrieved pages in another, and roughly 20 prompts in one of the author's examples.

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