Liam Hwang
Liam Hwang builds and maintains searchd.ai, and works on Runbear (runbear.io).
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Role | Co-founder and technical lead, SearchD |
| Also at | Runbear |
| liam@runbear.io | |
| Profiles | LinkedIn · DEV · Quora |
| Posts here | 7 posts |
Posts
How does an agency get a beauty brand into gift guides AI search cites?
Asking an AI assistant which agency can get you into gift guides tells you who sells the service, not which guides matter. Ask the shopper's question instead, check four facts in each cited guide and give your PR team a ranked pitch list. Sources checked 26 October 2026.
Should an international brand buy ChatGPT ads or hire an agency for AI mentions?
ChatGPT ads and organic AI mentions sit in different places and answer to different rules. What each one buys an international brand selling in the US, who sees it, and how to report the two apart. Sources checked 23 October 2026.
Why does AI say our international brand isn't sold in the US?
A where-to-buy answer is assembled from records held by different parties: the retailer's store inventory, the seller named in a product feed, and the shipping details on a product page. A table of which record carries each fact and which of them the brand controls. Sources checked 23 September 2026.
Which beauty brands are Korean?
A sourced table of twelve brands US shoppers ask about, separated into the signals that can disagree: where a company is based and who owns it. Every cell links the record supporting it, checked 16 September 2026.7 AEO agencies for Asian consumer brands entering the US
An evidence-based comparison of seven AEO agencies for Asian consumer brands entering the United States, organized by best fit, measurement, execution and public proof.
How AEO agencies prove results, and what a monthly report has to show
The three kinds of evidence an answer engine optimization agency can offer, and how far each one can be checked before you sign. The two questions that decide whether a case study is a reference, the six sections a monthly AI visibility report needs, and SearchD's own published number.
What ChatGPT searches before it names a brand
ChatGPT does not search the sentence your buyer typed, and ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity do not read the same index. What that changes about which pages you write, and the order to fix a brand that sells well at home and is absent from the English answer.
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