Figure 7-2
Monthly Ranking Shifts of AI Platforms
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Each row is one rank; follow the same-colored line to see each platform’s monthly rank, then read it together with the crawl volume for the same period.
Monthly ranking changes by platform 2026/3/3–10/8 · Top ten by monthly crawl requests (first place at top) · October through 10/8 Colors: Apple Anthropic OpenAI Microsoft Meta Amazon Google Our AI Search Perplexity DuckDuckGo Neutral (names at band ends): Yandex ByteDance Sogou Huawei Parallel TollBit Common Crawl March April May June July August Sep October (through 10/8) Below top ten Below top ten 1 237,000 2 141,000 3 102,000 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 444,000 2 363,000 3 349,000 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 1.65 million 2 766,000 3 302,000 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 5.73 million 2 3.94 million 3 2.45 million 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 10.71 million 2 4.36 million 3 3.83 million 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 12.66 million 2 10.22 million 3 6.01 million 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2.69 million 2 1.78 million 3 1.68 million 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 1.63 million 2 803,000 3 326,000 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 OpenAI Yandex Amazon Google Microsoft ByteDance Perplexity Apple Anthropic DuckDuckGo Meta Microsoft Anthropic Amazon OpenAI Apple Google Perplexity Yandex Sogou Source: IDAEO first-party measurement records; each month, AI Platforms are ranked by request volume, and only the top ten are drawn. October through 10/8; AI Platforms are ranked by counting each source separately; AI Agents automated browsing, AI tools, and Tracking in Progress are listed separately. Band width scales with the square root of monthly requests; when one request serves two purposes, it is counted only once for the same platform in the AI Platforms ranking. ID EO
| Item | March | Value | October (through 10/8) | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 237,000 | Meta | 1.63 million |
| 2 | Yandex | 141,000 | Microsoft | 803,000 |
| 3 | Amazon | 102,000 | Anthropic | 326,000 |
How to read Each row is one rank; follow the same-colored line to see each platform’s monthly rank, then read it together with the crawl volume for the same period.
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- Figure 7-1IDAEO Growth Milestones: From Zero to One Hundred Million Requests
- Figure 7-3Early Field-Test Merchant Results: Changes During the Field-Test Period
- FAQ 7-1What main growth line do the eight milestones show?
- FAQ 7-2What does Research-Evidence-Driven Optimization mean?