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How Do You Know AI Cites You? Measuring Both Ends of the Black Box
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On the left are first-party records: AI Real-Time Retrievals of 651,000. On the right are platform data and direct questions. Google's generative AI impression figures for this site are still pending. Copilot answer citations of the IDAEO platform total 31,711. TK Lin's personal IDA appeared in AI search source lists at a rate of 84% (four of the five models used the same search interface; the questions named the author himself; a single case). Below, reads, impressions, and citations form a checkable path. Requests, impressions, citations, and question ratios use different units and cannot be added together. This is a method diagram; cross-verification has not yet been completed.
ID EO How do you know AI cites you? Cross-checking content use from both ends of the black box Seeing content use Seeing impressions, citations, answers Site / edge first-party records Platform data / asking AI directly AI Black Box Training · ranking Mention · answer · action S6 Mention S7 Answer 1 VPS access logs Site requests · paths 2 Cloudflare AI crawler requests AI referrals Matched against VPS Identifies the same read First-party total 651,000 AI real-time retrievals 3 Google GSC Generative AI impressions and the URLs shown Our site's figures pending 4 Bing Webmaster Tools Copilot answer citations 31,711 times 2026/7/22–10/8 5 Asking multiple AIs 100 questions · five models 84% IDA used as a source Same URL · same period Links evidence from both ends into one checkable path Crawls Exposure Citation / answer Requests, impressions, citations, question ratios: different units, not additive. Bing cited URLs and tested answers check citation directly; front-end records fill in reads and impressions. Case before vs. after TK Lin's personal IDA, live test 9/20 0 10/3 84% 100 questions, five AI models; 84% of answers used this IDA as a source. IDAEO measures both ends of the black box, then uses platform dataand periodic live tests to measure the results of content use. Original framework © 2026
How to read On the left are first-party records: AI Real-Time Retrievals of 651,000. On the right are platform data and direct questions. Google's generative AI impression figures for this site are still pending. Copilot answer citations of the IDAEO platform total 31,711. TK Lin's personal IDA appeared in AI search source lists at a rate of 84% (four of the five models used the same search interface; the questions named the author himself; a single case). Below, reads, impressions, and citations form a checkable path. Requests, impressions, citations, and question ratios use different units and cannot be added together. This is a method diagram; cross-verification has not yet been completed.