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Study of 557 Indian ChatGPT users finds 2% of chats are about buying something

Chowdhury and Garimella collected complete ChatGPT histories from 557 Indian users: 88,958 conversations between December 2022 and February 2026. Purchasable products made up 2.2% of them. Practical guidance was 29.5%, seeking information 22.7%, writing 17%. English was the detected language in 80% of conversations; Hindi in 1.8%. The sample is paid volunteers, not a cross-section of India, and the authors say so.

Who is speaking: Academic researchers, one independent in Kolkata, one at Rutgers University. Label: Verified. Read in the paper. Per-conversation labels are public; the raw text is not. Source: "How People Use ChatGPT: Conversation-Level Evidence from India, Nigeria, Brazil and Pakistan", working paper, 2026.

ChatGPT has a dozen indexes and five live experiments. Your prompt list should have no edits

The engine under your AI visibility number is being rebuilt in public. The only part of the measurement you control is the list of questions you ask it, and most of the advice on writing that list comes from the companies selling the tracking. Method · 21 September 2026 On 4

Cloudflare spent a year trying to split Googlebot. It settled for a line in robots.txt

On 15 September the company retired its one-click AI-blocking switch. What replaced it lets Google, Apple and Microsoft keep crawling, on a promise. Every other company's training bots stay locked out, and one name is missing from the announcement altogether. Engines · 16 September 2026 Somewhere in

Only 4 of 94 AI visibility tools mention Hindi. None say where their India prompts come from

We read the public pages of 94 AI visibility tools on 13 September 2026. Four name Hindi or Hinglish anywhere on those pages. Ten have an Indian address, rupee pricing or Indian clients. Not one, Indian or global, says on the pages we read how the prompts it runs for

Profound Raises $180 Million Series D

Bloomberg reported this morning that Profound, the New York company that tracks how brands show up in AI answers, has closed a $180 million Series D. The round values the company at $1.8 billion post-money and was led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. As always, every number

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ChatGPT has a dozen indexes and five live experiments. Your prompt list should have no edits

Cloudflare spent a year trying to split Googlebot. It settled for a line in robots.txt

Only 4 of 94 AI visibility tools mention Hindi. None say where their India prompts come from

Profound Raises $180 Million Series D