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DeepSeek

Widely used by Chinese-speaking buyers and skipped by most visibility tools.

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What we ask it

We ask it in Chinese through its official API with web search on, and record how it expanded the question, which pages it cited, the excerpt it took from each, and who it named.

What decides whether it cites you
  1. Whether the page is in Chinese

    For a question asked in Chinese, DeepSeek's search retrieves Chinese pages. A brand with only an English site is largely invisible to it. One Chinese page that states what you do, with both your Chinese and English names, is the minimum.

  2. Whether its search can reach the page

    Pages on sites its search indexes are the candidates. A page that only exists behind a login or inside an app is not.

  3. Whether the name is consistent

    If the Chinese name and the English name never appear together, the engine can treat them as two different brands.

Questions

Does DeepSeek search the web?

In the mode Source uses, yes. We ask through its official API with search enabled and record the pages it cites.