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What biases AI agents to choose your product
AI agents now act as buyers, and product pages must be optimized for them to increase selection rates. New research from Yale and Columbia finds that small changes in wording can drive large gains. The study found that renaming a product to match intent increased selection by 80.4 percentage points for GPT-5.1, 52 points for Gemini 2.5 Flash, and 41 points for Claude Opus 4.5. Agents favor strong keywords, higher ratings, more reviews, and positive badges, while “Sponsored” labels reduce selection. Better models make fewer mistakes, as failure rates dropped from 63.7% to 4.3% for Claude and from 25.8% to 1% for GPT across versions.
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