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How AI Assistants Choose Which Brands and Sources to Cite

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AI assistants answer from two places: what the model learned in training and, when they search the web, the pages the search returns, which they show as citations. Vendors document the crawlers and controls (robots.txt tokens, location, search settings) but not how they rank sources, so treat any "…

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  1. 2026-10-28 11:44 · DEV Community — AI
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