✅ All 100 queries below are verbatim — captured live from the engines' own search traces, not paraphrased or invented. Each is the actual web-search string an AI engine fired (or, for Google, the actual related-search / People-also-search string it surfaced) when answering buyer prompts about PR services like Shilika's. Captured 23 June 2026. (This supersedes the earlier pattern-derived list.)

How each engine was captured

Ran buyer prompts live and read the actual query strings each engine generated:

• Claude (claude.ai) — shows each web search as an expandable “Searched the web” chip with the exact query string. Most extractable; 50 captured.
• ChatGPT — the “Thought for Xs” reasoning panel lists the literal queries it ran. 9 captured.
• Perplexity — the “Searching the web” step shows verbatim queries (only when its step UI renders on the free plan). 6 captured.
• Google — Google AI Overview / AI Mode hides its internal queries (verified directly). As agreed, used Google's visible “People also search for” / related-search / People-also-ask strings as the labelled Google-side proxy. 35 captured.
• Gemini — excluded: Gemini Flash answered without exposing its grounding query strings in the DOM, so no verbatim capture was possible.

Why this matters: engines never search the buyer's literal sentence — they rewrite it into short queries (often adding 2025/2026, best, rankings, pricing, or splitting compound asks). To get cited by AI search, rank for these strings.

Engine mix: Claude 50 · Google (proxy) 35 · ChatGPT 9 · Perplexity 6

The 100 verbatim queries, grouped by engine

Each query is tagged with the service it maps to, buyer intent stage, and the closest keyword on your Shortlisted list (with monthly volume).

Claude (claude.ai) — verbatim search strings (50)

ChatGPT — verbatim search strings from reasoning panel (9)

Perplexity — verbatim search strings (6)

Google — “People also search for” / related-search proxy (AI Overview internals are hidden) (35)