See what DeepSeek says about your brand.
In January 2025 DeepSeek passed ChatGPT on Apple's US App Store, and it searches the web with an engine of its own. Visibian asks DeepSeek your buyers' questions, daily or weekly, and shows whether it names you.
The assistant that passed ChatGPT on the App Store.
It searches with its own engine, not Google's.
Ranking well in Google says little about DeepSeek. Its search engine is its own.
DeepSeek says its web search and page fetching are "powered by our in-house search engine". So the pages it finds for a question are DeepSeek's own pick, and only asking it shows them.
Search is a tool DeepSeek uses when it thinks a question needs one. When it does, the answer comes back with the pages it used.
Source: DeepSeek's API docs.
4 things to check for DeepSeek.
Don't turn away what you can't name
DeepSeek publishes no list of its crawlers. A firewall rule that blocks unknown programs may block its search too. The free AI Readiness Check shows what an assistant can read.
Keep facts in the page's text
Prices, plans and comparisons inside images or PDFs are hard for any search engine to read, and DeepSeek's is no exception. Put them in plain text.
Test it on its own
Its search engine is its own, so your Google or Bing results don't predict it. Ask DeepSeek directly and see which pages it finds.
See the visits it sends
Ground Truth counts the people who reach you from chat.deepseek.com and puts them beside the answers they came from.
Sources: DeepSeek's API docs; checked 5 November 2026. Ground Truth is on Business and agency plans.
Every DeepSeek answer about you, kept in full.
Named or not
Whether DeepSeek named you, and how often across your questions, with a 95% confidence range.
Results from its own search engine
The pages DeepSeek's in-house search returned for your questions, results no Google or Bing report shows you.
Clicks from chat.deepseek.com
On Business and agency plans, Ground Truth shows how many visits DeepSeek's chat site sends you.
Why it picked someone else
Why not me? says whether your page was never retrieved, read and passed over, or retrieved but not cited.
Visibian asks DeepSeek through its own API, on the endpoint that runs DeepSeek's web search, so every answer that searched comes with the pages it used. The same questions go to the 11 other assistants on every plan. Checked 5 November 2026.
Asked before you ask.
How do I check what DeepSeek says about my brand?
Add your brand and the questions your buyers ask. Visibian asks DeepSeek each one on your schedule and keeps the whole answer, with the pages its search found.
Does DeepSeek use Google to search the web?
DeepSeek says its search runs on its own in-house search engine. That is why it is worth asking DeepSeek directly instead of assuming your Google results carry over.
Can I block DeepSeek's crawler?
DeepSeek publishes no list of its crawlers, so there is no name of its own to put in robots.txt with confidence. Lists kept by other companies name one, but DeepSeek has not confirmed it.
Does Visibian use the DeepSeek app or the API?
DeepSeek's own API, on the endpoint that supports its web search. It returns the pages each searched answer used.
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