Nicolas Sitter

What AI searches when asked for hotels in Miami

Before answering a hotel question with web search, an AI assistant rewrites it into one or more searches. These are the searches it actually ran for 11 traveller prompts about Miami, captured week after week, not autocomplete suggestions.

ChatGPT
199
answers, 1.2 searches each, May 2026 to Nov 2026

Explore by prompt

Percentages are shares of answers. Grok and Gemini were captured on an earlier prompt set, so most current prompts only have ChatGPT.

Best hotels
Luxury
Budget
Families
Couples
Business
Solo
Amenity
Neighbourhood or landmark
Prompt
“best hotels in Miami”
Answers captured
18
Searches per answer
1.0
Searched the prompt as written
22%
Captured
4 May 2026 to 2 Nov 2026

The searches ChatGPT ran

Most frequent first. “×3” means the same search appeared in three separate answers.

  1. best hotels Miami luxury×3
  2. best hotels in Miami×3
  3. best hotels in Miami luxury beachfront 2026×2
  4. best hotels in Miami Florida 2026 neighborhoods luxury beachfront boutique recommendations×1
  5. best hotels in Miami Florida neighborhoods luxury beachfront boutique 2026×1
  6. best hotels in Miami 2026 luxury beachfront boutique South Beach Brickell reviews×1
  7. best hotels Miami luxury 2026×1
  8. best hotels Miami 2026 luxury Miami Beach Brickell×1
  9. best hotels Miami recommendations×1
  10. best hotels Miami×1
  11. best hotels in Miami 2026 luxury Miami hotels South Beach Brickell hotels Miami×1
  12. best hotels in Miami luxury hotels Miami 5 star hotels Miami Beach top hotels Miami×1
  13. best hotels luxury Miami×1

Words it added to the prompt

luxury72%202644%beachfront28%beach22%boutique17%brickell17%florida11%neighborhoods11%recommendations11%south11%56%reviews6%star6%top6%

Places and names it added

Florida11%South Beach Brickell11%

Hotel topics in what it added

All Miami prompts together

Share of answers whose searches added each topic, counting only words that were not already in the prompt.

What a Miami hotel page can cover

The topics ChatGPT adds most often here, with what a page can do about each. These are editorial suggestions drawn from the searches, not a measured ranking effect.

  1. A year32% of answers

    Say what is current: this year’s renovations, prices and openings, with dates on the page.

  2. Neighbourhood and location26% of answers

    Name your neighbourhood and what is walkable from it, in words, not only on a map.

  3. Best / top24% of answers

    The engine is looking for lists. Being on the editorial and booking-site lists matters as much as your own page.

  4. Hotel class or style23% of answers

    State your class and style plainly (five-star, boutique, historic) in text and in schema.

  5. Who it is for11% of answers

    Say who the hotel suits (families, couples, business) and why, with specifics.

Which hotels get named? The answers behind these searches are tracked in the AI Hotel Landscape for Miami.

How the searches were captured and cleaned, and what is left out: method and limits. ChatGPT data runs to Nov 2026.