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AI search engines show no significant impact from book launch on citations

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A study pre-registered to test if AI search engines like OpenAI Search and Gemini would incorporate new information about an author's book launch into their search results found no statistically significant effect. The drift-adjusted analysis showed a small, non-significant increase in relevant citations. The study noted limitations including Gemini's service interruption and the lack of a comparison group, suggesting that smaller effects might be below the detection threshold of the experiment. AI

IMPACT This research suggests current AI search capabilities may not readily integrate real-world event data into their responses.

RANK_REASON The item details a pre-registered study testing a specific hypothesis about AI search engine behavior, including methodology and results. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI search engines show no significant impact from book launch on citations

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Marin T. Kael ·

    I pre-registered a test of whether my book launch changes AI citations. The answer is no detectable effect.

    <p>Since May I have asked answer engines with web search the same 16 questions about a new author, on a fixed three-day grid, and scored each answer by fixed rules from -3 to +3. On 8 October 2026 that author's first novel came out. For the first time there was evidence about him…

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