AI Citations
How source selection behaves across engines and query types.
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GeoScript Research
Original analysis of how AI search actually behaves.
Data-driven research on AI citations, geographic visibility, and what makes AI engines recommend one business over another.
Geographic Visibility
How recommendation outcomes change across cities and regions.
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Engine Behavior
Cross-engine differences in retrieval, grounding, and ranking.
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Content Effects
Which content changes shift citation and recommendation rates.
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Analysis
AI Engines Prefer Fresh Content. Local Business Pages Are the Stalest on the Web.
Ahrefs found AI-cited pages are 25.7% fresher than organic SERP pages on average. The risk is uneven: local businesses with static service and location pages may be penalized in assistant-led discovery.
September 7, 2026 · 10 min read · Alex Ferguson
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AI Assistants Send Visitors to Pages That Don't Exist. That Traffic Is Recoverable.
Ahrefs found AI assistants send users to 404 pages 2.87x more often than Google Search. The overlooked opportunity is operational: recover lost visits now, and use hallucinated slugs as a content-demand signal.
September 6, 2026 · 10 min read · Alex Ferguson
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The Two Biggest AI Citation Studies Contradict Each Other. Both Are Right.
Yext says 86% of AI citations come from sources brands control. Featured found brands' own websites earn 1.7% of citations. The gap between those numbers is the most useful finding in AI search research this year.
September 5, 2026 · 9 min read · Alex Ferguson
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Analysis
A Third of AI Citations Point to Low-Authority Domains. That's Not the Interesting Part.
What 22,881 AI citations reveal about how little we actually know about AI search — and why the next wave of research needs hundreds of millions of data points, not thousands.
September 5, 2026 · 7 min read · Alex Ferguson
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