Mike Perez

Founder of (AI Visibility Tracking & Optimization for agencies and brands), LawyerMarketing. 20+ years in SEO.

[gethoverboard @gethoverboard]

Nearly 28% of consumers say they don’t trust any AI for major life decisions. But 72% of people in the U.S. do.

Looking at people who do trust AI answer engines, it’s clear that ChatGPT dominates:

• ChatGPT: 59.9%
• Gemini: 20.3%
• Claude: 8.6%
• Grok: 5.1%
• Copilot: 3.6%
• Perplexity: 1.1%

So, 3 out of every 5 AI users use ChatGPT for their most important questions while 1 out of 5 use Google Gemini.

If you’re optimizing for answer engine visibility, ChatGPT and Google should be your priority.

Source: Hoverboard 2026 AI Trust & Search Behavior Report

[Mike Perez @highrank]

@neilpatel Truth. Usage and trust in AI answer engines is increasing, so getting recommended or mentioned by answer engines presents great growth opportunities for brands. https://t.co/DMFTci6IaK

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@suganthan @lilyraynyc Truth

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Getting recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, etc. is getting more and more important, as usage and trust increases answer engines continues to increase. In this Hoverboard AI study, only 16% of people had less trust in answer engines than 1 year ago. https://t.co/7wJzPcKk4d

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@mikealfred How to sell…without selling. Nice

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This is valuable information for anyone doing GEO / AEO and wants improved visibility on Google AI (AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini)

[gethoverboard @gethoverboard]

Google AI sometimes cites URLs that carry a text fragment (#:~:text=). That’s a deep link that highlights the precise block of text on the cited page that the answer was built from. We analyzed 230,000 of these Text Passages. Here’s what it actually cites...

https://t.co/2EibpATeLM

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@HsanC_ That's not how actual links are built and hasn't been for many years.

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@HansMahncke @0rf https://t.co/zn6vHeoKlg - Grokipedia is a much more reliable source. Wikipedia is a joke.

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@MarindaVannoy1 This was the worst movie I’ve ever seen. And I saw Showgirls with Elizabeth Berkeley. Can’t believe what a pile of crap this movie was.

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@nicksaraev Impressive 👏

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@rustybrick

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@Jason

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@niyirora654 AI slop

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@denohawari True. Visitors that come from answer engine referrals convert at a higher rate. Why? Because consumer trust in answer engines is increasing. https://t.co/DMFTci6IaK

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@unusual_whales 77% of Americans now use AI answer engines. https://t.co/DMFTci6IaK

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@svpino Don’t forget “the real unlock”

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@PawelHuryn Pretty steep price for Chinese model

[Mike Perez @highrank]

@Charles_SEO Yea, that’s why I was thinking you were getting personalized results :)

[Mike Perez @highrank]

@Charles_SEO I do see Primary Position and your Reddit post on 1st page of SERPs though…