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How does entity authority factor into whether an AI search engine will cite a small blog versus a major news outlet?
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
How does entity authority factor into whether an AI search engine will cite a small blog versus a major news outlet?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
AI search engines citation source authority small blogs major news outlets source selection retrieval ranking authority signals studyGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
AI search engines citation source authority small blogs major news outlets source selection retrieval ranking authority signals study Google ↗
- Google AI Overviews Favor Major News Outlets: Study Reveals · searchenginejournal.com
- Featured AI Citation Report, June-August 2026 · press.featured.com
- Generative <fc>AI</fc> Search Engines as Arbiters of Public Knowledge: An Audit of Bias and Authority - Li - 2024 - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com