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Why Does Copilot Cite a Website Google Ranks 30th? 205 Copilot Citations for a Site at Google Position 30.2

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Because AI citation is not Google rank. Microsoft Copilot builds its answers from Bing's index and from pages whose answers are written out in quotable text — and in Michael Putnam's second field study, his own Sarasota County home-value site was cited 205 times by Copilot in 103 days while Google…

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  1. 2026-10-28 16:03 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Does Copilot Cite a Website Google Ranks 30th? 205 Copilot Citations for a Site at Google Position 30.2

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