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  # How Each AI Platform Picks Sources

  Each AI search platform has its own search index, ranking logic, and content
  preferences. This guide covers what matters for getting cited on each one.

  Sources cited throughout: Princeton GEO study (KDD 2024), SE Ranking domain
  authority study, ZipTie content-answer fit analysis.

  ---

  ## The Fundamentals

  Every AI platform shares three baseline requirements:

  1. **Your content must be in their index** — Each platform uses a different
  search backend (Google, Bing, Brave, or their own). If you're not indexed, you
  can't be cited.

  2. **Your content must be crawlable** — AI bots need access via robots.txt.
  Block the bot, lose the citation.

  3. **Your content must be extractable** — AI systems pull passages, not pages.
  Clear structure and self-contained paragraphs win.

  Beyond these basics, each platform weights different signals. Here's what
  matters and where.
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