Blogging Titan research series
Who is independent, who is paid, and whether the claims hold up when you follow them to the source.
The standard for this series. Investigations follow every link and claim to its origin and record what we found, page by page. We publish the sample, the classification rules and the cases we could not settle.
In this series
- We Checked Who Wrote the 951 Pages ChatGPT and Perplexity Cited. On 195 of Them, Nobody.
- 224 of the 951 Pages AI Search Cited Carry No Publication Date
- We Counted the Statistics on 161 Page-One Blogging Pages. Seven in Ten Cite Nothing.
- The Reddit Tax: We Checked 30 Blogging SERPs. Reddit Is on Page One for All 30.
- We Tried to Verify the Author of 48 Page-One Blogging Guides. On 15 of Them, There Is Nobody to Find.
- We Checked 47 Page-One Tool Reviews for Proof the Writer Actually Used the Tool. 1 in 5 Had None.
- We Followed Every Link on 40 “Best Blogging Tool” Posts. Only 8 Had No Stake in the Answer.
- We Checked 25 Posts That Say “Updated 2026” Against Their Own Archives. 14 Changed Almost Nothing.
The other five series
The Internet Experiment · The Website Autopsy · The AI Reality Check · Hidden Economics of the Internet · The Next Internet
Every series sits inside Original Research, alongside our named findings, how we test and our editorial policy.