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 | amazon.com | 5/5 | 45 | $22 |
| 2 | barnesandnoble.com | 5/5 | 27 | $13 |
| 3 | penguinrandomhouse.com | 5/5 | 18 | $8 |
| 4 | cambridge.org | 5/5 | 12 | $6 |
| 5 | books.google.com | 5/5 | 9 | $4 |
| 6 | harvard.edu | 4/5 | 7 | $3 |
| 7 | oup.com | 4/5 | 5 | $2 |
| 8 | bookshop.org | 4/5 | 4 | $1 |
| 9 | springer.com | 4/5 | 3 | $1 |
| 10 | wiley.com | 4/5 | 2 | $1 |
| 11 | mit.edu | 3/5 | 2 | $0 |
| 12 | press.princeton.edu | 3/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 13 | nber.org | 5/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 14 | goodreads.com | 4/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 15 | mitpress.mit.edu | 2/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 16 | worldcat.org | 3/5 | 1 | $0 |
| 17 | princeton.edu | 2/5 | 0 | $0 |
| 18 | economist.com | 3/5 | 0 | $0 |
| 19 | aeaweb.org | 4/5 | 0 | $0 |
| 20 | brookings.edu | 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 →