Web Use Project Study

Web Use Project Study describes itself simply: "You can find information about the Internet Use & Society Division of the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich here." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.5 out of 10.

The page falls short on structured data describing the business, a heading structure that lays out what it offers, a clearly stated business identity, credibility markers like credentials or reviews, the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.

Away from its own site, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). There is not much on the page to read either, about 25 words. The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.