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100 Most Cited Domains in Google’s AI Mode

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Si Quan Ong
Content marketer @ Ahrefs. I've been in digital marketing for the past 6 years and have spoken at some of the industry’s largest conferences in Asia (TIECon and Digital Marketing Skill Share.) I also write about my curiosities on my Substack.
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We analyzed our Brand Radar database of 5.5 million AI Mode queries to identify the domains that appear most often in Google’s AI Mode responses.

These are the 100 most cited domains, along with their number of mentions.

100 most cited domains in AI Mode

The top domains cited in AI Mode are Wikipedia, YouTube, Google’s blog, Reddit, and Google itself.

With so many mentions of YouTube, their own blog, and themselves, AI Mode seems to be quite self-serving, at least at this point in time.

AI Mode also seems to prefer user-generated content (UGC), with sites like YouTube, Reddit, Quora, Instagram, Yelp, TripAdvisor, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more high on the list.

#DomainMentions
1en.wikipedia.org1135007
2www.youtube.com961938
3blog.google601835
4www.reddit.com588596
5www.google.com568774
6www.amazon.com431080
7www.quora.com360239
8www.facebook.com338391
9m.yelp.com246155
10www.instagram.com215144
11www.imdb.com163224
12www.tripadvisor.com144918
13www.linkedin.com139177
14www.mapquest.com136772
15www.walmart.com122096
16www.britannica.com115790
17www.healthline.com113728
18www.yahoo.com106770
19www.ebay.com102697
20my.clevelandclinic.org99680
21www.mayoclinic.org89103
22www.webmd.com87025
23www.pinterest.com84926
24support.google.com79057
25www.merriam-webster.com78354
26www.tiktok.com76213
27www.medicalnewstoday.com73362
28pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov73276
29www.wikihow.com70536
30study.com70146
31www.indeed.com69432
32www.espn.com68391
33www.collinsdictionary.com66547
34medium.com63859
35www.etsy.com61766
36www.businessinsider.com60467
37www.nytimes.com60340
38www.verywellhealth.com60164
39www.target.com58013
40www.dictionary.com56852
41play.google.com53741
42www.goodrx.com52672
43www.homedepot.com52335
44x.com51535
45www.sciencedirect.com48960
46www.nerdwallet.com45357
47people.com45056
48www.usatoday.com44579
49www.forbes.com44131
50simple.wikipedia.org43091
51www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov42423
52medlineplus.gov42286
53brainly.com42266
54m.youtube.com41206
55m.facebook.com41055
56apps.apple.com40658
57www.ebsco.com40490
58www.investopedia.com40462
59www.allrecipes.com38808
60sports.yahoo.com37782
61finance.yahoo.com37283
62www.expedia.com37168
63www.bankrate.com35358
64www.vocabulary.com34060
65dictionary.cambridge.org33658
66www.cbsnews.com33429
67www.cnet.com33379
68www.cnn.com32373
69www.lowes.com30965
70www.zillow.com30624
71www.usnews.com30405
72www.drugs.com30391
73www.ziprecruiter.com30172
74www.lemon8-app.com30126
75www.eventbrite.com29467
76www.cdc.gov29283
77www.edmunds.com28913
78www.today.com28589
79www.kbb.com28244
80www.yelp.com28000
81library.fiveable.me27510
82www.cnbc.com27032
83www.caranddriver.com27007
84www.rottentomatoes.com26707
85www.bestbuy.com26592
86www.justanswer.com26502
87www.si.com26341
88www.ign.com25881
89www.thespruce.com25261
90www.cbssports.com24313
91allevents.in23725
92open.spotify.com23712
93en.wiktionary.org23420
94www.bbb.org23148
95www.masterclass.com23021
96www.bbc.com22704
97www.thekitchn.com22680
98www.wikiwand.com22354
99www.nordstrom.com22150
100www.cars.com21893

Use Ahrefs’ Brand Radar to track your brand’s presence in AI Mode

Google does not seem like they intend to make the data for AI Mode available. So, to track your brand’s presence in AI Mode, you’ll have to use a tool like Ahrefs’ Brand Radar.

Enter your brand, go to AI responses, select AI Mode, and you’ll see the queries your brand appears for.

See your brand in Ahrefs Brand Radar

To see how you’re comparing against your competitors in AI Mode, enter their brands in the “Your competitors” section.

See your brand and how it fares against competitors in Ahrefs Brand Radar

Want to track your brand’s presence in Google’s AI Mode and other AI search engines? Sign up for Brand Radar.

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Si Quan Ong
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Content marketer @ Ahrefs. I've been in digital marketing for the past 6 years and have spoken at some of the industry’s largest conferences in Asia (TIECon and Digital Marketing Skill Share.) I also write about my curiosities on my Substack.
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