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Evidence-backed method notes and dated observation logs on how AI engines discover, cite and recommend brands. Modelled and illustrative reports live in the Demo Lab.

Explore CiteRank studies, industry benchmarks and multi-LLM experiments covering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Copilot, Grok and Meta AI.

Latest publication: 21 Jul 2026 · 10 entries · 8 engines tracked

Featured reportMethodology

How We Measure AI Visibility

The prompt-set design, sampling cadence, parsing rules and scoring model behind the AI Visibility Score — including what the score deliberately does not claim.

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Latest Research results

Weekly Update21 Jul 2026

Weekly AI Search Update — W29 2026

Google AI Overviews expands citation panels, Perplexity ships shopping-intent scoring, and what both changes ask of your source layer.

Engines
2 tracked
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Observation logFree to read

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Weekly Update14 Jul 2026

Weekly AI Search Update — W28 2026

A default model shift inside ChatGPT changes citation behaviour on long-tail prompts. Short-term volatility, not a strategy change.

Engines
1 tracked
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Observation logFree to read

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Weekly Update7 Jul 2026

Weekly AI Search Update — W27 2026

A new Claude release ships grounded citations by default, with early effects on B2B recommendation share.

Engines
1 tracked
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Observation logFree to read

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Weekly Update30 Jun 2026

Weekly AI Search Update — W26 2026

Grok expands enterprise API access and Meta AI begins surfacing citations inside chat surfaces — two very different distribution shifts.

Engines
2 tracked
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Observation logFree to read

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Best Practice1 Apr 2026

The Right Monitoring Cadence

How often to re-sample prompts, engines and competitors so you catch real movement without drowning your team in alert fatigue.

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Not engine-specific
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Method noteFree to read

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Best Practice5 Mar 2026

Writing Content That Gets Cited

Structural patterns that raise citation probability across ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and the rest — and the popular patterns that do nothing.

Engines
3 tracked
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Method noteFree to read

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Best Practice20 Feb 2026

Entity Hygiene Checklist for GEO

The canonical entity fields AI engines look for before recommending a brand, and the reconciliation process that keeps them consistent.

Engines
Not engine-specific
Industry
Professional Services
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Method noteFree to read

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Methodology8 Feb 2026

The Recommendation Share Model

How ranked, cited and mentioned events across eight engines are weighted into a single share-of-answer metric, and how to read its confidence interval.

Engines
Not engine-specific
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Method noteMethodology noteFree to read

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Methodology18 Jan 2026

Prompt Set Construction

How an ideal-customer profile becomes a statistically usable prompt corpus — stratification, phrasing discipline, localisation and versioning.

Engines
Not engine-specific
Industry
Cross-industry
Geography
Global
Sample
Not disclosed
Method noteMethodology noteFree to read

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Research collections

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Entries marked “illustrative data” contain modelled figures used to demonstrate structure and method. They are not client results, and no client workspace data is ever published. Every entry states its author, sampling approach and limitations — see the methodology.

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