{
 "slug": "answer-engine-ingest-versus-citation",
 "url": "https://stillosdigitalholdings.com/findings/answer-engine-ingest-versus-citation",
 "question": "When an AI answer engine crawls a site thousands of times, how often does it actually cite that site to a human?",
 "headline": "52,413 verified ingestion fetches across 52,333 distinct URLs produced 5 verified live-answer fetches.",
 "cite_as": "An answer engine ingested 52,413 pages across 52,333 distinct URLs over 20 days and performed 5 verified live-answer retrievals — a ratio of 10483:1 (Still OS Digital Holdings LLC, answer-engine citation ledger).",
 "numbers": {
  "Verified ingestion fetches": "52,413",
  "Distinct URLs ingested": "52,333",
  "Days observed": "20",
  "Verified live-answer retrievals": "5",
  "Ingest : live-answer": "10483 : 1",
  "Search-bot identity claims that were forged": "3 of 7 (42.9%)"
 },
 "method": "Every request is matched to the crawler operator's OWN PUBLISHED IP RANGES (openai.com/gptbot.json, chatgpt-user.json, searchbot.json). A user-agent claim from an out-of-range address is counted as forged, never as a visit. Ingestion crawlers and live-answer retrievals are counted separately because only the second indicates a person asked a question.",
 "producers": [
  "/home/marcus/state/agent-visitor-log.jsonl",
  "/home/marcus/state/aeo/openai-gptbot.json"
 ]
}