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title: "Query Fan-Out Tracking: See the Searches Behind AI Answers · Aeonav"
description: AI engines turn one prompt into several web searches. Aeonav tracks the exact fan-out queries ChatGPT and other engines run for your prompts, and how they rewrite your wording.
canonical: https://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/features/query-fan-out
updated: "2026-10-27"
---

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# Query Fan-Out Tracking

When an AI engine with web search answers a prompt, it often runs several web searches first. Aeonav records those fan-out queries for every prompt, so you can see what the engines actually search for, which searches recur across your category, and how they rewrite your wording.

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![Query fan-out word cloud of the search terms AI engines generate, with a breakdown of how prompts get rewritten](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/screenshots/query-fan-out.png)

## What You Can Do

1. 1See Every Search

   Open any prompt to see the web searches each engine ran while answering it, and how often each one recurred.

2. 2Find the Recurring Queries

   Top queries surface the searches that come up again and again across all your prompts.

3. 3Learn How Engines Rewrite You

   Query words show which words from your prompt engines keep, which they drop, and which they add, like 'best', a year, or 'vs'.

## Data You Can Act On

- Queries

  The distinct web searches engines ran for your prompts.

- Average fan-out

  Average searches per run, counting runs that issued at least one web search.

- Search prompt runs

  How many times your prompts ran on engines configured with web search.

- Runs with known and unknown queries

  Search runs that exposed their queries, and those where the engine didn't search or didn't reveal what it searched.

- Added, preserved, and dropped words

  How engines rewrite your prompt wording on the way to a search.

## Use Cases

- Find the search phrasing to target, based on what the engines actually search for rather than what you guess.
- See the qualifiers engines add, like the current year or 'vs', and cover them in your content.
- Check whether your pages rank for the searches behind the prompts you're losing.

## Why Aeonav

- Straight From the Runs

  Every figure comes from the searches recorded on real prompt runs, the same way for every provider.

- Honest About Gaps

  Some engines don't reveal their searches. Aeonav counts those runs separately instead of guessing what they searched for.

- Only Real Rewrites

  A search that just repeats your prompt says nothing about how it was rewritten, so the page leaves those out.

## Related Guides

- [DocsProvider Docs](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/docs/user-guide/providers)
- [BlogChatGPT UI Now Cites Reddit the Same Amount as the OpenAI API](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/blog/chatgpt-ui-reddit-citations-api)
- [BlogDoes Ranking in Google's Top 10 Get You Cited by AI?](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/blog/rankings-and-ai-citations)
- [BlogMulti-Turn AI Search: What Prompt Tracking Misses](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/blog/multi-turn-ai-search)
- [Tool directoryAI visibility tools with query fan-out](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/ai-visibility-tools/features/query-fan-out)

## Related Features

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- [Citation TrackingWhich domains and pages AI cites for your prompts, including your own, broken down by category and tracked over time.](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/features/citation-tracking)
- [Prompt TrackingSuggested from your website, tagged and organized, with every AI answer kept for you to search and inspect.](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/features/prompt-tracking)
- [OpportunitiesContent to create, pages to refresh, and sources to pitch, generated from your own visibility and citation data.](http://www.aeonav.fivecoder.com/features/aeo-recommendations)

## Frequently Asked Questions

Something we did not cover? Email <support@fivecoder.com>.

### What Is Query Fan-Out?

Query fan-out is an AI engine breaking one question into several web searches, retrieving results for each, and writing a single answer from what it found. The searches it runs decide which pages it can cite.

### Which AI Engines Show Their Fan-Out Queries?

It depends on the engine and on the provider used to reach it. Aeonav shows the queries wherever they're exposed, and counts runs where an engine searched without revealing its queries separately.

### How Do I Use Fan-Out Queries?

Treat them as the searches your content has to rank for. If an engine searches for 'best CRM for startups 2026' when answering your prompt, the pages that rank for that search are the ones it can cite.

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