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What AI engines actually cite

A living record of which tools and sources ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name for the query “best GEO tools 2026” — updated run over run. The point is the honesty: it's published in the open, my own site included.

1 run3 enginesLatest: July 12, 2026

0times marcodiversi.com has been cited by any engine, across all runs. Baseline published openly — watch this change (or not) as the data grows.

How often each tool is named (July 12, 2026)

Across 3 engines. A tool at 3/3 was named by every engine; most sit at 1.

Profound3/3
AthenaHQ2/3
Peec2/3
Scrunch2/3
Semrush2/3
Bluefish1/3
BotRank1/3
BrightEdge1/3
Geoptie1/3
Otterly1/3
RankScope1/3
Writesonic1/3

Where the engines agreed — and didn't

named by all 3

Profound

named by 2

AthenaHQ, Peec, Scrunch, Semrush

named by just 1

Bluefish, BotRank, BrightEdge, Geoptie, Otterly, RankScope, Writesonic

More than half the tools appeared on only one engine's list — the AI "consensus" is far less settled than the confident tone implies.

What kind of source got cited

Third-party roundups5
Vendor blogs (ranking themselves)4
General publishers2
Community / video2

The cited sources this run: TripleDart, SitePoint, SE Ranking (blog), Primacy, geoptie.com, Scrunch (blog), Profound (blog), rankscope.ai, botrank.ai, Architectural Digest, TechRadar, Quora Business, YouTube. Note how many are vendor blogs ranking themselves — worth weighting down.

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