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Where Does AI Get Brand Information? 85.7% Is Third-Party
Where does AI get brand information? Of 167,551 citations for 128 European brands, 85.7% were third-party sites. The top source shifts by language.
Why Your Business Doesn't Show Up in AI Recommendations
Why your business doesn't show up in AI recommendations: 85.6% of 4,776 Bali venues were never recommended. Documentation set entry; star rating set rank.
Adding a diversity reward to query fan-out: Google's R4T
R4T trains query fan-out on groundedness, diversity, and alignment rewards, then distills it into a small diffusion model. Is that diversity right for search?
Which of two pages do AI answers cite? The 4 gatekeepers
What does content need to get cited over a competitor in generative search? A 252K-run study finds four gatekeepers, and ChatGPT and Gemini differ.
A survey of 45 GEO papers: what holds up and what doesn't
A survey of 45 GEO papers: four research shifts in three years, nine stages of AI visibility, why content-only optimization cuts citations, and what reproduces.
Which Brands Do AI Search Engines Mention? A Benchmark
A large-scale GEO benchmark of brand visibility across five AI engines: how size and awareness matter, how engines differ, and where citations come from.
FeatGEO: Do keywords or structure earn AI citations?
FeatGEO turns a page into features to optimize AI citation visibility and quality together, how it differs from word-level GEO, and its effect on human pages.
Does structure alone raise AI citations? The evidence
An empirical study that raised AI search citation rates 17.3% by tuning only document structure (headings, paragraph length, emphasis), plus how engines differ.
SAGEO Arena: edit only the body and you drop out of search
SAGEO Arena re-evaluates GEO across retrieval, reranking, and generation. Why title and meta fields beat body text in AI search, and how to survive reranking.
GEO-16 Framework: What Pages Do AI Engines Cite?
A study measuring which pages AI answer engines cite using 16 signals: the impact of structured data and semantic HTML, engine differences, and thresholds.