Gab

Gab is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Gab is a social network that champions free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of information online, and powers a parallel economy of groups, marketplace, news, and video." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity it is one of the more visible businesses we measure, scoring 7.4 out of 10.

On the page itself the strengths are clear: a clear heading structure, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on some structured data and a partly stated business identity. What holds it back is credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it, the domain reads as established, AI engines recognise it as a distinct business, it turns up in press coverage, people discuss it in places AI engines read and it comes up on Reddit.

AI crawlers have visited 2 times in our tracking, including OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI) and GPTBot (ChatGPT). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence. The business dates to 2016.