Verified AI-search changes and source research.https://geoaeoale.com/en/enhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/https://geoaeoale.com/en/briefings/google-search-console-generative-ai-report/https://geoaeoale.com/en/briefings/google-search-console-generative-ai-report/Google described dedicated reporting for AI Overviews and AI Mode. It helps observe impressions and clicks inside Google Search, but it does not reveal a ranking score, the complete source set, or a causal link between a page change and an answer appearance.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTbriefingAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/briefings/perplexity-crawler-roles/https://geoaeoale.com/en/briefings/perplexity-crawler-roles/Perplexity documents PerplexityBot for search crawling and Perplexity-User for fetching a page in response to a user request. A matching User-Agent and official IP help classify the fetch, but neither role alone proves that the page appeared as a link in an answer.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTbriefingAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/briefings/weekly-2026-09-11/https://geoaeoale.com/en/briefings/weekly-2026-09-11/This week’s central finding is that technical access and ordinary search eligibility remain foundations for AI discovery, while fetch, impression, citation, and referral are different events. New reporting is useful only when every metric has its own definition, period, and data source.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTdigestAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/crawler-access-vs-citation/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/crawler-access-vs-citation/A web-server log proves that a resource was fetched by a particular request. It does not prove retrieval, use of a fact, a displayed citation, or a user click. Each claim requires its own chain of preserved artifacts.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/seven-surfaces-evidence-map/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/seven-surfaces-evidence-map/Public documentation for seven surfaces describes different access and search modes but no shared source-selection formula. Measure accessibility, discovery, links, and citation as separate events.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/source-change-monitoring-experiment/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/source-change-monitoring-experiment/To determine whether documentation meaning changed, a raw HTML diff is insufficient. Snapshot an open URL, normalize noisy elements, compare extracted text and structure, then manually review candidate meaningful fragments. This item reports a methodology and pilot protocol, not a quantitative result: numeric observations must be collected by actually running the experiment.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-09-07/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-09-07/Google separates eligibility for AI answers from actual selection, different systems use different domains, and a scientific experiment shows reputation effects in a narrow task. Google Play adds a separate app-availability boundary, while Perplexity separates the model from the search surface. These are measurement boundaries, not universal promotion recipes.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-31/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-31/Five signals this week show that AI visibility is several different events: Google may separate third-party content from a domain’s reputation, Alice can receive products through a commerce system, Grok Bot searches inside X, and large and field measurements separate citations from referrals. None is a universal recipe.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-24/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-24/Google Preferred Sources is a personalized lever for an already interested reader, not a general ranking factor. Grok 4.6, GEO-text detection, Reddit decline, and connector errors show why measurements must be versioned and checked.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-17/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-17/The week did not reveal a universal growth factor, but it established four practical limits: conversation context changes answers, one run does not cover all sources, more citations can reduce evidential quality, and page provenance is not a recipe for generating content.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-10/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-10/Being included in an answer, ranking among named entities, evidential correctness, and a user action cannot be reduced to one metric. This week’s studies support measuring the stages separately and comparing page types within a specific intent.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-03/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-08-03/A site-access policy should describe a specific crawler and purpose. Allowing or blocking one User-Agent does not establish a general result for search indexing, training, agent fetches, or advertising.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-07-27/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-07-27/A row labelled only “Perplexity” or “Google” is not a reproducible experiment. Store surface, mode, answer model, device, personalization, repeat, and event type; citation, mention, paid presence, and traffic remain different outcomes.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorialhttps://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-07-24/https://geoaeoale.com/en/research/weekly-research-2026-07-24/An AI-bot visit does not prove that a page was retrieved for an answer, cited, or clicked. A useful measurement model needs separate artifacts for access, discovery, retrieval, mention, citation, and referral.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMTresearchAI discoveryGeoAeoAle Editorial