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Riley James
Riley James

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How AI answer engines decide which sources to cite

Answer engines like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity cite a handful of sources inside generated answers. This is a short technical note on what drives those citations: an explicit answer capsule near the top, a comparison table, named verifiable proof, entity presence in the knowledge graph, and content freshness.

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