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AI Answer Engine Citation Behavior An Empirical Analysis of the GEO16 Framework
Arlen Kumar, Leanid Palkhouski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10762 https://arx…

AI Answer Engine Citation Behavior An Empirical Analysis of the GEO16 Framework
AI answer engines increasingly mediate access to domain knowledge by generating responses and citing web sources. We introduce GEO-16, a 16 pillar auditing framework that converts on page quality signals into banded pillar scores and a normalized GEO score G that ranges from 0 to 1. Using 70 product intent prompts, we collected 1,702 citations across three engines (Brave Summary, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity) and audited 1,100 unique URLs. In our corpus, the engines differed in the GEO q…

Oh no the YouTube bullshit of substituting perfectly fine real videos (shorts) with very obvious AI without the creators consent just reached my timeline

Reddit wants to become "a go-to search engine" for users; its core search has 70M weekly active unique users and AI-powered Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/717095/reddit-q2-2025-earnings-search-engi…

Reddit wants to be a search engine now
Reddit is putting effort into making its platform a “go-to search engine,” CEO Steve Huffman says in a note to investors.

Generative Engine Optimization: How to Dominate AI Search
Mahe Chen, Xiaoxuan Wang, Kaiwen Chen, Nick Koudas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08919 https://arxiv…

Generative Engine Optimization: How to Dominate AI Search
The rapid adoption of generative AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini is fundamentally reshaping information retrieval, moving from traditional ranked lists to synthesized, citation-backed answers. This shift challenges established Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices and necessitates a new paradigm, which we term Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of AI Search and traditional web search (Google). Thro…

Reddit wants to become "a go-to search engine" for users; its core search has 70M weekly active unique users and AI-powered Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/717095/reddit-q2-2025-earnings-search-engi…

Reddit wants to be a search engine now
Reddit is putting effort into making its platform a “go-to search engine,” CEO Steve Huffman says in a note to investors.

Stratified GRPO: Handling Structural Heterogeneity in Reinforcement Learning of LLM Search Agents
Mingkang Zhu, Xi Chen, Bei Yu, Hengshuang Zhao, Jiaya Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06214

Stratified GRPO: Handling Structural Heterogeneity in Reinforcement Learning of LLM Search Agents
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools such as search engines to solve complex, multi-step problems, and reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key paradigm for training them. However, the trajectories of search agents are structurally heterogeneous, where variations in the number, placement, and outcomes of search calls lead to fundamentally different answer directions and reward distributions. Standard policy gradient methods, which use a single global baselin…

Exposing Citation Vulnerabilities in Generative Engines
Riku Mochizuki, Shusuke Komatsu, Souta Noguchi, Kazuto Ataka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06823 https://

Exposing Citation Vulnerabilities in Generative Engines
We analyze answers generated by generative engines (GEs) from the perspectives of citation publishers and the content-injection barrier, defined as the difficulty for attackers to manipulate answers to user prompts by placing malicious content on the web. GEs integrate two functions: web search and answer generation that cites web pages using large language models. Because anyone can publish information on the web, GEs are vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Existing studies of citation evaluation…

CO₂-Emissionen von Containerschiffen sind gestiegen
Eine Analysefirma vermutet: Das liegt an den weiten Umwegen, die die Handelsschiffe fahren müssen. Denn im Roten Meer drohen Angriffe der Huthi-Miliz.
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Sources: Apple plans an AI search tool, World Knowledge Answers, for spring 2026 as part of a Siri revamp; Apple and Google plan to test a Google model for Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine (Michael Nuñez/Venturebeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/perplexity-launches-massive-search-api-to-take-on-googles-do…