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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
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Reliance Jio and Google announced free Google AI Pro, a ₹35,100 value, for 18 months on 30 October 2025, first for 18-to-25-year-olds on unlimited 5G plans and for all ages from 10 November. Jio had about 506 million subscribers at the time. Neither company has
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Airtel gave its customers a year of Perplexity Pro free from July 2025, calling it a ₹17,000 value for its 360 million customers. New sign-ups closed on 16 January 2026. Sensor Tower estimates Perplexity's monthly users in India went from about 2.6 million before the
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Semrush's 2026 study of its clickstream data found that 65 to 85% of real ChatGPT prompts matched no keyword in its database. That matters because several tools build their prompt lists by rewriting search keywords. Semrush's real-prompt data comes from a panel supplier, Datos, which
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We read the public pages of 94 AI visibility tools. Many say their prompts come from real users. Across all 94, exactly two pages name the supplier: Semrush names Datos on its enterprise methodology page, and Adobe names Semrush. Everyone else says "panels" or "partners" without
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Profound's Prompt Volumes page lists the ten countries its licensed real-user conversations come from. India is not on the list. The same page gives three different size figures for the dataset. Who is speaking: Profound, which sells AI visibility tracking. Label: Verified. We read the page. The
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Google's India announcement for AI Mode, in October 2025, says queries there are nearly three times longer than traditional searches. It gives no unit and no base, so we can't tell whether that means words or characters, or longer than what. Who is speaking: Google, which