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Analysis on AI recommendation readiness, retrievability, and the signals that affect citing decisions.
AI assistants cannot agree on what DefaultAnswer is because the software category it represents is not yet established. This post documents what happens when AI models are forced to categorize something new.
Why AI assistants often recommend inferior websites - and how confidence, not quality, determines citation.
Why AI assistants avoid citing sites that lack visible legitimacy, access, and accountability signals.
Why AI assistants skip sites that lack direct, extractable answers to common questions.
Why AI assistants skip websites that are hard to categorize, summarize, or justify as sources.
A breakdown of the missing signals that stop AI assistants from citing high-ranking pages.