Questions explained
21 questions we get often, each with the long answer and the data behind it.
Where the numbers are ours, we publish how they were measured. Where the answer is that something does not work, we say so, even when it is a service we could have sold you.
What changed recently
Analyses tied to a specific change: a launch, a law, a study, a new setting. The newest comes first.
- 01
If I ask an AI assistant how to get a document online, does it send me to the official site?
Our test on 147 answers to 15 administrative tasks: ChatGPT points to the official site in 90% of cases, while Google's AI includes paid intermediaries in half of its answers.
- 02
If my site is on Google's first page, will ChatGPT cite it too?
A new study and our test on 96 ChatGPT answers, in Romanian, Hungarian and English: only 23% of the cited sites were in Google's top 30, and the language of the question changed the country.
- 03
What would an AI ministry do in Romania, and where does it start from?
What the new ministry inherits: an AI Act with no implementing law, 8 of 30 AI answers about public services with errors, and businesses using AI almost four times less often than the EU average.
- 04
Where does GEO end and manipulation begin?
A new study shows a vendor's text can hijack a customer's AI agent without a single lie. The line in four questions, and what we found on 50 Romanian shops.
- 05
What do AI agents read when someone asks about your company?
The largest experiment so far says ordinary pages, not new AI files. With the right figures, its limits and our test on 30 Romanian businesses.
- 06
What does ChatGPT's new hotel feed mean for a hotel in Romania?
On 1 October OpenAI added a hotel feed to ChatGPT Ads, without an announcement. What it asks for, what it lacks and what we found on 30 Romanian hotels.
- 07
Should we panic that Google is citing itself in AI Mode?
Profound measured an 8.4x jump, SE Ranking a 17% citation share. But Indeed wins on jobs, and our live test on muzeulcfr.ro shows why.
- 08
Which country does an AI assistant pick when you ask in Hungarian from Romania?
We asked Google AI Mode in Hungarian, from Romania, about an expired identity card. With no hint in the text, it answered about Hungary. How assistants search, in which language, and what it means for ErdélyGPT.
- 09
Why is there no Siri AI on iPhone in the EU?
iOS 27 brings a Siri that searches the web on 14 September. In the European Union it is missing from iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. What Apple and the Commission say, and what matters for a business.
- 10
Why did ChatGPT recommend an event that does not exist?
Ten coaches turned up at a festival that was never organised. A case study, with the deleted page recovered from the archive and the fix, in structured data.
- 11
Does the Cloudflare change on 15 September affect me?
Probably not, and the press got the scope wrong. But the real trap affects everyone: blocking training also cuts off Googlebot.
- 12
What the ad register ChatGPT has to publish will reveal
From December 2026, every ad shown in ChatGPT becomes public and queryable through an API. What it contains, and what it leaves out.
The path, from symptom to fix
In the order it makes sense to read them: the symptom, the check you can run yourself in thirty seconds, what that check misses, the technical layers, how a brand gets recommended and, finally, the questions worth asking someone before you pay them.
- 13
Why my competitors show up in AI answers and I do not
Three measured causes, in order of how often they occur, from a scan of Romanian businesses.
- 14
How do I check whether an AI can read my site
The thirty-second test, with no paid tool, and the numbers from three sites we built for clients.
- 15
The mistakes that make you invisible to AI engines
Six mistakes from real audits, each with its symptom and its check. Including the ones the test above does not catch.
- 16
What structured data actually does for AI
It ranks nothing. It spares the model from guessing. With the types actually declared on coralbaby.ro and muzeulcfr.ro.
- 17
Do security headers matter for AI visibility?
They are not a ranking factor and we will not pretend they are. With what we fixed on our own site, and why we stopped short.
- 18
How does a Romanian brand get recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity?
The website version of the press release published on AGERPRES. What an ad in ChatGPT buys, the two-speed market, the four levels of appearing in an AI answer and how they are measured, with the source of every figure.
- 19
What to ask before you hire a GEO expert
Seven questions that separate a supplier who measures from one who promises. They apply to us too.
Context
Two pieces that sit apart: how the discipline has died nine times so far and what is different this time, and whether AI tokens will become a currency.
- 20
SEO has died nine times. Is the tenth different?
It first died in 1997, the year the term was coined. What it absorbed each time, and the test with thresholds written in advance.
- 21
Will AI tokens become the currency of the future?
Not a currency but the new kilowatt-hour: billed, budgeted, and with compute futures scheduled for October. Plus a measurement: how many tokens it costs to have your page read.
The short questions live elsewhere
The pages above are the ones that needed room, because the answer takes data, commands to run, or examples. The rest get a one-paragraph answer and sit in the resources section on the home page, where they read faster.