Does AI recommend Whirlpool?
whirlpool.com in major home appliances: how often Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT name it next to GE Appliances, its top competitor, which sites the answers cite, and whether AI crawlers can read the site.
20%
of AI answers name Whirlpool
GE Appliances: 37%. Rank 5 of 62 brands tracked.
Whirlpool vs GE Appliances, engine by engine
Named most by Gemini (22%), least by ChatGPT (20%). The grey tick is the typical (median) brand of the category.
Questions where GE Appliances is named and Whirlpool is not
- “Best French door refrigerator 2026”
- “Best all in one washer dryer combo that actually dries”
40 more questions like these in this check. The snapshot finds them all for Whirlpool against up to 5 competitors, on 50 buyer questions asked 3 times in each engine, with the sites to get listed on and 5 fixes.
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Is Whirlpool named, and where?
- Yes. Whirlpool is named in 20% of the answers across Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT.
- It ranks 5 of 62 brands we track in major home appliances.
- In list answers it shows up at position 2.1 on average in Google AI Overviews (1 = first).
- Its own site, whirlpool.com, is the 6th most cited site in the category.
The category baseline
From the AI Citation Index (62 brands tracked in major home appliances, Week 41).
1%
The typical brand
37%
The category leader
20%
Whirlpool, above typical
See the full major home appliances index · Whirlpool's weekly trend
The sites the answers cite
The sites cited most in AI answers about major home appliances, all engines. Being listed, reviewed or discussed on these is the shortest path into the answers.
- youtube.com8.0% of citations
- yaleappliance.com4.3% of citations
- reddit.com3.2% of citations
- consumerreports.org2.9% of citations
- homedepot.com2.2% of citations
- whirlpool.com1.2% of citations
Can AI crawlers read whirlpool.com?
Nothing we could test stops the AI engines from reading the site; part of the check could not run (marked below). Checked Nov 3, 2026.
| Crawler | What it feeds | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|
| OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search, the pages it cites | Unknown |
| GPTBot | OpenAI model training only | Unknown |
| Googlebot | Google Search and Google AI Overviews | Unknown |
| Google-Extended | Gemini answers and training | Unknown |
| ClaudeBot | Claude | Unknown |
| Firewall | Akamai in front of the site | Could not test |
| Text without JavaScript | 1737 words in the raw homepage HTML | Readable |
We could not reach robots.txt.
Nothing to fix in what we could test. The rows marked "Could not test" need a manual look: open your homepage with JavaScript off, and check your bot protection settings.
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