Aesthetic Clinic AI Search Visibility Across Four Platforms

Fix the aesthetic-clinic panel before collecting answers

The protocol and 18 exact query cells were fixed before paid collection. Three convenience-selected US markets were crossed with neuromodulator injections, dermal fillers and laser skin resurfacing, using ordinary-selection and practitioner/branch/evidence wordings. No practice brand was seeded in a query.

Collect the four surfaces separately

DataForSEO LLM Scraper collected ChatGPT and Gemini. ChatGPT used force_web_search=true. The initial Google segment used Live endpoints. After repeated upstream technical failures, a prospective execution overlay admitted same-provider Standard queue delivery for remaining Google checks and four exact-input recoveries. AI Overviews retained depth 10 and asynchronous loading; AI Mode retained its separate Google surface. Responses retain actual delivery mode and collection time. US-English country-level location 2840, desktop and Windows settings were used; city names were explicit in the query.

Returned model labels — ChatGPT: gpt-6; Gemini: 3.5 Flash-Lite. Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode did not return model-version labels. This collection does not establish equivalence to every signed-in consumer session.

Keep repeats and collection states visible

The core contains 216 scheduled observation slots: three sequential same-day waves, 54 per platform. 5 diagnosed original temporary failures received separately admitted same-input recovery. Four Google failures were recovered through normal-priority Standard queue delivery before completion of the first wave. The separately admitted Live Gemini recovery occurred only after all original first-pass slots were terminal. Original and recovery modes and timestamps remain in the observation metrics. There were 221 core requests in total. 10 technical collection attempts are excluded: 6 preflight attempts across 4 fixed technical cells and 4 separately admitted diagnostic probes. 359 read-only queue GET calls retrieved already-posted tasks; they are not additional observation attempts.

205 final core slots contained an AI answer; 11 checks returned no AI answer; 0 retained an unresolved collection error. Original failure states and both timestamps remain in the public observation metrics. Scheduled repeat labels are not a claim that delayed recoveries occurred in their original chronological wave. Provider-side caching was not controllable.

Count final-answer citations and source-set similarity

ChatGPT/Gemini use the provider’s declared final-answer sources, not unused search results. Google uses references inside top-level AI answer items, not ordinary organic listings, local packs or People Also Ask. URLs are deduplicated within an answer after hostname/www, tracking, fragment and trailing-slash normalization. Hostname means the normalized host, not corporate ownership.

Jaccard is intersection divided by union. Empty/empty citation sets are undefined, one-empty sets are zero, and both-nonempty summaries are reported separately. Within-query comparisons match exact query and platform; cross-platform comparisons match exact query and scheduled repeat label. Delayed recoveries are not represented as chronologically simultaneous captures.

Inspect a fixed first-reference source sample

The qualitative sample uses the first plan-ordered selection wording, scheduled wave 1, then the first declared normalized citation. A same-input recovery of a temporary failure may fill that original slot later; the source ledger flags recovery and actual timestamps. No-answer, no-source and unresolved-error slots remain explicit. Dated source-page evidence supports only what was actually visible on that page.

The published codebook classifies URL navigation patterns conservatively. Treatment paths take precedence over generic location or practitioner prefixes. A path label is not a review of page quality or proof that a particular block caused a recommendation.

The public data omit full AI answers, API identifiers, credentials and private ClinicTruth project information. They retain prompt cells, observation metrics, citations, pair inputs and review evidence needed to inspect the analysis.