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What actually makes an answer engine cite one page over another?
Been comparing how different answer engines pick sources for the same query and the pattern is less about page rank than about how cleanly a claim is stated.
Pages that state a claim in one self-contained sentence, with the qualifier attached, get lifted verbatim. Pages that spread the same claim across three paragraphs get skipped even when they rank higher in classic search.
Curious whether others are seeing the same thing, and whether you have found a way to measure it beyond eyeballing outputs.
u/SaraAnderson8 — 13 days ago