# Reddit — the record The most-cited forum on the AI surfaces and the loudest litigant against scrapers — the clearest test of whether being quoted by an engine is worth anything. Reddit is the case study for the whole citation economy, and the record pulls in two directions at once. Ahrefs put it second by mention share in Google AI Overviews at 18.5%, behind YouTube; BrightEdge measured its tracked search footprint up 33x between June 2025 and February 2026, then another 84% to July before plateauing at a level several times higher than a year earlier, with roughly 88% of that volume coming from AI Overviews. Days later a tracker recorded Reddit's ChatGPT Search citations falling 86% in four days — a reminder that citation share is engine-specific and moves without warning. Meanwhile Reddit is suing: its DMCA anti-circumvention claims against Perplexity and SerpApi survived a dismissal bid in the Southern District of New York, and its CEO says AI Overviews still have not found a win-win. Google, for its part, denies giving Reddit any special preference in rankings. Also known as: https://www.reddit.com/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1136 - 2026-09-17: Audit: Reddit AI search favors formal, highly upvoted comments (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-17-audit-reddit-ai-search-favors-formal-highly-upvoted-comments/) A preprint audit by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers traced 30,000 Reddit AI search answers back through 14.68 million comments across… - 2026-09-13: People Inc. sites and The Atlantic block GPTBot, still bill Claude, Perplexity (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-13-people-inc-sites-and-the-atlantic-block-gptbot-still-bill-claude/) The wire's crawler access panel — 55 publisher domains probed daily as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and a browser — caught three People Inc.… - 2026-09-03: Ten Speed: product pages draw 24% of AI citations, Reddit 4% (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-03-ten-speed-product-pages-draw-24-of-ai-citations-reddit-4/) Ten Speed analyzed 170 B2B buyer-evaluation prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, generating 7,387 citation appearances tracked via the… - 2026-08-27: BrightEdge: Reddit citations skew to brand-aware AI shoppers (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-brightedge-reddit-citations-skew-to-brand-aware-ai-shoppers/) BrightEdge's latest weekly AI-search analysis, covering May 17-August 2, 2026 across Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT in nine industries, finds that… - 2026-08-27: Reddit's citation drop is ChatGPT-only: 86% there, 11% on AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-reddit-s-citation-drop-is-chatgpt-only-86-there-11-on-ai-overviews/) Promptwatch put per-engine numbers to Reddit's citation decline on August 20: its share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from an average 3.83% (July… - 2026-08-22: Perplexity moves to dismiss most of CNN's claims (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-22-perplexity-moves-to-dismiss-most-of-cnn-s-claims/) Perplexity asked a court to dismiss Counts II through V of CNN's copyright complaint — everything except the claims tied to Perplexity's training-data… - 2026-08-19: Business sites dominate Gemini's local AI citations (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-19-business-sites-dominate-gemini-s-local-ai-citations/) A Steady Demand analysis of 14,472 AI citations across 1,487 local search queries in the 50 largest U.S. metros found business websites accounted for… - 2026-08-19: Reddit's ChatGPT Search citations fell 86% in four days, tracker finds (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-19-reddit-s-chatgpt-search-citations-fell-86-in-four-days-tracker-finds/) Promptwatch found Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from an average of 3.83% (Jul. - 2026-08-16: BrightEdge: Reddit's AI citation surge has plateaued at a higher baseline (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-brightedge-reddit-s-ai-citation-surge-has-plateaued-at-a-higher/) Reddit's tracked search footprint expanded roughly 33x between June 2025 and February 2026, and its AI citations grew about 84% between February and July… - 2026-08-16: Study finds ChatGPT and AI Overviews cite different parts of social platforms (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-study-finds-chatgpt-and-ai-overviews-cite-different-parts-of-social/) Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT cite different assets within the same social platforms, not just different domains, according to a BrightEdge analysis of… - 2026-08-11: Google refiles DMCA claim against scraper SerpApi (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-11-google-refiles-dmca-claim-against-scraper-serpapi/) Google filed a First Amended Complaint against scraper SerpApi on August 11, adding new allegations to try to revive the DMCA anti-circumvention claim… - 2026-08-05: Google denies giving Reddit special preference in Search rankings (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-05-google-denies-giving-reddit-special-preference-in-search-rankings/) Google spokesperson Jennifer Kutz told The Verge that Reddit "gets no special preference" in Google Search or its AI search features, per Search Engine… - 2026-08-05: 9th Circuit reverses Perplexity CFAA injunction in Amazon suit (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-05-9th-circuit-reverses-perplexity-cfaa-injunction-in-amazon-suit/) The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity AI's agentic browser Comet from operating on Amazon.com… - 2026-08-01: Reddit CEO says AI Overviews still haven't found a "win-win" (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-reddit-ceo-says-ai-overviews-still-haven-t-found-a-win-win/) Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told investors on the company's Q2 earnings call that Google's AI Overviews have "yet to make a similar level of positive impact"… - 2026-07-31: Reddit's DMCA suit against Perplexity, SerpApi survives dismissal bid (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-31-reddit-s-dmca-suit-against-perplexity-serpapi-survives-dismissal-bid/) A federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied Perplexity and SerpApi's motions to dismiss Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims, per Ars… - 2026-07-23: Ahrefs ranks the 50 most-cited domains across four AI surfaces (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-ahrefs-ranks-the-50-most-cited-domains-across-four-ai-surfaces/) Ahrefs published July citation-share rankings of the most-cited websites in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, tracked across US queries… Canonical: https://anythingengineoptimization.com/entity/reddit/ From Anything Engine Optimization (AEO Wire) — https://anythingengineoptimization.com/entity/