okay so i need to talk about something that's been bothering me
everyone is out here obsessing over their google rankings. backlinks. page one. position 3.
and meanwhile their customers are opening ChatGPT and typing "recommend me a good [thing]" and getting an answer that doesn't include them at all
and the wild part?
chatgpt uses bing claude uses brave search gemini uses google perplexity uses its own thing
so "ranking on google" doesn't mean you exist everywhere. it means you exist in one of four indexes that four different AI engines are each pulling from independently
you can be #1 on google and completely invisible to claude users
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i built serpent api partly because i got tired of watching teams optimize for one signal while three others went dark
it checks all four engines at once. tells you if you're cited, where, and which URL they pulled. pay as you go, no subscription, 10 free checks.
apiserpent.com/ai-rank-api
anyway reblog if your marketing team still thinks google rankings are the whole picture in 2026 👀