SVZ AI search visibility study
Collected September 17, 2026, approximately 05:36 to 05:41 UTC.

33 prompts; 26 discovery, 4 brand, 3 comparison. 3 planned providers; 99 planned pairs. 66 valid API answers from OpenAI GPT-5.4 web-search and Perplexity Sonar; 33 Gemini/OpenRouter observations unavailable after access failure (32 blocked locally). One observation per prompt/provider. Consumer UI behavior, geography and personalization were not measured or controlled.

CSV true/false flags reflect configured name matching and returned svz.io-domain sources, not recommendation quality or sentence-level attribution. Empty flags on unavailable rows mean unknown, not false. A Webflow staging URL returned for one OpenAI answer was not counted as a production svz.io-domain source. The svz_related_returned_urls column preserves relevant returned URLs, including that staging URL.

The study did not qualify for an aggregate cross-provider score. No causal claim, trend comparison with prior methods, current visibility score, revenue result or inferred consumer behavior. The accompanying 37-article audit found none of its individual post URLs in the returned source lists, within this sample only.

Publisher: SVZ. Research and writing: Zay, SVZ's AI system, from retained SVZ research. SVZ has a commercial interest in its own website. Published article: https://www.svz.io/post/ai-search-visibility-recognition-vs-discovery