ChatGPT’s query fan-outs now heavily favor .gov sources on legal questions
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-07-29
The poster says ChatGPT is now using site: searches very frequently inside Query Fan-Outs for certain queries, and that this resembles Google’s 2020 E-E-A-T behavior where only the most authoritative sites could compete.
In the legal example shown, ChatGPT limits all fan-outs to .gov domains and repeatedly includes the word "official". The cited results are 100% government domains even though the user prompt does not explicitly ask for government-only information.
The author argues this shows a strong authority bias for YMYL-style questions, making it hard for non-government sources to surface in the answer.
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