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- referenceAI search citation likelihood — direct evidence is thin; indirect evidence (overlap with organic top 10) is moderate. Speed is not a known direct lever.
- referenceGoogle retired ClaimReview rich results in June 2025; schema persists for non-Google AI ingestion
- referenceSimhi et al. (Technion/Oxford/Hebrew U, Feb 2025): "models can hallucinate with high certainty even when they have the correct knowledge"
- referenceCasey Newton / Platformer retreat from daily cadence (April 2026): "More scoops, less aggregation and analysis" — AI commoditizes daily synthesis
- referenceClio Legal Trends: AI adoption among legal professionals jumped 19% (2023) → 79% (2024) → 93% mid-sized firms (2025); 64% mid-sized offer flat-fee
- referenceProfound (Aug 2024-Jun 2025, 680M citations): only 11% domain overlap between ChatGPT and Perplexity; 13.7% between AI Overviews and AI Mode
- referenceDan Taylor (SE Land, Jan 13 2026, n=107,352): CWV is a gate for AI citation, not a growth lever
- referenceOtterlyAI: /llms.txt sees 0.1% of AI-bot traffic — performs worse than average content page
- referenceWikipedia is the #1 cited domain in Google AI Mode (11.22%); YouTube #2 at 9.51%
- referenceAI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) generally do not execute JavaScript — client-side React/Vue without SSR is invisible
- referenceOtterlyAI (Sept 2025): community platforms (Reddit, Quora) capture 52.5% of AI citations vs 47.5% brand domains
- referenceDigital Applied 5K-site audit (Apr 2026): only 22% of schema implementations pass Google Rich Results Test (r=+0.34 with AI citation)
- referenceSuganthan: schema has three lives — index-time, training-time, query-time
- referenceQuery fan-out: Google AI Overviews issue multiple sub-queries; pages get cited across queries they never targeted
- referenceAI citation overlap with Google top-10 has collapsed — from 76% (Jul 2025) to ~8-38% (2026)
- referenceSchanbacher (SSRN 2025): FAQPage and Product schema strongly predict ChatGPT visibility (single-domain peer-reviewed)
- referenceBrightEdge (Feb 2026): AI Overviews now appear on 48% of tracked queries, up from ~30% a year prior
- referenceGoogle (May 2026): "Structured data isn't required for generative AI search"
- referenceGoogle Search Central (May 15, 2026): "Optimizing for generative AI is still SEO"
- referenceWhitespark 2026: AI Search Visibility added as a formal local ranking category for the first time
- referenceAhrefs (2025, 17M citations): AI-cited content is 25.7% fresher than traditional organic results
- referenceSeer (Sept 2025): brands cited inside AI Overviews earn 35% more organic CTR and 91% more paid CTR
- referenceSeer Interactive (Oct 2025): 65% of AI bot hits target content under 1 year old; 89% under 3 years
- referenceAhrefs (April 2026): adding schema to 1,885 pages produced no AI-citation lift; AI Overviews showed -4.6%
- referenceGEO finding: Lower-ranked pages (organic rank ~5) gain 115.1% AI visibility when given GEO treatments
- referenceGEO finding: Keyword stuffing is the only tested tactic that hurts AI visibility (-8% to -10%)
- referenceGEO finding: Cite Sources lifts visibility +28%
- referenceGEO finding: Statistics Addition is the #2 tactic at +31%
- referenceGEO finding: Quotation Addition is the top-performing tactic at +41% on Position-Adjusted Word Count
- referencePrinceton GEO paper (Aggarwal et al., KDD '24) — the foundational generative engine optimization study
- referenceResearch brief: Structured content as a competitive advantage (piece 2 of 15)
