Citation checks and who the answers trust

A citation check puts one of your tracked questions to an engine and reads the actual answer: did it cite your domain, and if not, whom did it cite instead. Answers are stored verbatim, so every verdict can be checked against its source.

Checks run weekly on a schedule, per the engines your plan covers. History is append-only, so movement is real movement: when an engine that cited you for nothing starts citing you, the change is measured, not guessed.

Who the answers trust ranks every domain the stored answers cited for your questions. It is both the leaderboard you are climbing and the reading list for what those engines consider citable.