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How do AI answer engines decide what content to cite?
AI engines evaluate source credibility, content specificity, entity clarity, and retrieval relevance — not keyword density or backlink count.
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How does Perplexity select which sources to use in its answers?
Perplexity retrieves from the live web on every query, then ranks chunks by relevance and source credibility before synthesizing its answer.
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Does my Google ranking affect my AI citation rate?
Partially. About 50% of AI citations come from content that also ranks in the traditional top 10, but domain authority does not directly transfer to AI citation share.
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