A commercial recommendation prompt. We size how many people ask ChatGPT this from real search demand, then run it through ChatGPT to see which websites it recommends.
One of the 5 times we asked ChatGPT this, verbatim. The leaderboard below aggregates all 5 runs.
Aggregated across 5 runs (min 2/5 appearances). Estimated visits split the prompt's demand by rank. Sites matching the prompt's own brand are marked branded and excluded from the leaderboard.
| Rank | Website | Appears | Est. visits / mo | Est. value / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coursera.org | 4/5 | 83 | $62 |
| 2 | edx.org | 4/5 | 50 | $37 |
| 3 | stanford.edu | 5/5 | 33 | $24 |
| 4 | mit.edu | 5/5 | 23 | $17 |
| 5 | cmu.edu | 5/5 | 17 | $12 |
| 6 | ox.ac.uk | 5/5 | 12 | $9 |
| 7 | cam.ac.uk | 5/5 | 9 | $6 |
| 8 | berkeley.edu | 4/5 | 7 | $5 |
| 9 | harvard.edu | 3/5 | 5 | $4 |
| 10 | mastersportal.com | 2/5 | 4 | $3 |
| 11 | imperial.ac.uk | 5/5 | 3 | $2 |
| 12 | topuniversities.com | 2/5 | 2 | $1 |
| 13 | columbia.edu | 3/5 | 2 | $1 |
| 14 | studyportals.com | 2/5 | 2 | $1 |
| 15 | ucla.edu | 3/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 16 | usnews.com | 2/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 17 | ethz.ch | 5/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 18 | nyu.edu | 3/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 19 | gradschools.com | 2/5 | 0 | $0 |
| 20 | timeshighereducation.com | 2/5 | 0 | $0 |
ChatGPT doesn't publish prompts, so we don't show logged conversations. We measure real demand for this topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (on average about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers, a ratio that varies by topic), and run the prompt through ChatGPT 5 times to record which websites it recommends and in what order. Estimated visits split that demand across the recommended sites by a click-through-by-rank curve. Every number is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →