Questions

The things vendors ask before they trust the index, or before they buy anything. Each one has its own page, and the answer is the one we give on a call. The figures they ask about are in the October 2026 edition.

Clients are named in the methodology of each edition published during the engagement and for twelve months after it ends; where a genuine legal or contractual restriction prevents naming one, that edition gives the number withheld instead.

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  Are you scraping ChatGPT?

  ChatGPT and Perplexity: official APIs. Google has none for AI Overviews or AI Mode; a provider supplies them by what its docs call scraping. Editions say so.

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  You rank us, then sell us a fix. Isn't that a protection racket?

  Position cannot be bought, and the inclusion rule and the formula are published before the run. Clients are disclosed in each edition's method.

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  Can you guarantee we'll rank higher?

  No, and neither can anyone else charging you for it. We commit to delivered units on a fixed date and to a refund you compute yourself.

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  Why these 116 vendors? Who decided?

  A published test: does the product have something only a care provider would ever use? Anyone can see how the list is drawn; vendors can't opt in or out.

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  Multiple runs each — is that statistically meaningful?

  Not a poll. Every question is asked of every engine more than once, three times in August 2026, and the edition publishes how often answers repeated: 35%.

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  Why should we trust a publisher in Indonesia?

  Not on our say-so. The method is published before the run, every number traces to text kept for three years, and corrections are marked on the edition.

If yours is not here, ask it: contact@namedindex.com. Questions that come up more than once get a page.