Source Authority Signals Recognized by AI Search Engines
Earning AI citations now requires mastery of four trust layers, not keyword rankings.
Tobias Wrenfield
Staff Writer, AI Search Platforms
Tobias Wrenfield
Tobias previously covered enterprise software and developer tooling for a B2B tech trade publication, where he developed a specialty in tracking platform releases and API ecosystems. At The AEO Signal he benchmarks how Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, Gemini, and their competitors handle sourcing, attribution, and retrieval.
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ChatGPT Search Source Selection Criteria
ChatGPT cites only specific passages that support each claim, not entire authoritative pages.
Tobias Wrenfield