by SX Arya | Jul 6, 2026 | AI Strategy
DeepSeek selects sources through a combination of its training corpus and live web retrieval, but its citation behavior differs from other major AI platforms in one important way: it shows lower citation rates for news publishers and general informational content...
by SX Arya | Jul 4, 2026 | AI Strategy
Gemini draws its citations from a richer and more varied set of sources than any other major AI search platform. It pulls from Google’s search index, YouTube video transcripts, Google News, multimodal content including images and PDFs, and personalized data...
by SX Arya | Jul 4, 2026 | AI Strategy
Perplexity applies the most aggressive content freshness filter of any major AI search platform. Approximately 84 percent of its citations go to content updated within the last 30 days. For most AI engines, freshness is just one signal among many. For Perplexity, it...
by SX Arya | Jul 4, 2026 | AI Strategy
Claude shows only 41 percent overlap with Google’s top-ten results when selecting citation sources, the lowest correlation of any major AI search platform. This is the most important number to understand about Claude’s source selection: getting cited by...
by SX Arya | Jul 4, 2026 | AI Strategy
Google AI Overviews pull roughly 80 percent of their citations from pages already ranking in Google’s top ten. This represents the highest top-ten correlation among major AI search platforms. Consequently, traditional SEO fundamentals offer the most direct path to...
