Bing Query Fanout examples

Bing Just Showed Us How the Sausage Gets Made

We analyzed 91 days of Bing's AI Performance data and found something Microsoft probably didn't intend to show us -- how Copilot's retrieval system actually selects sources, the "query fanout" pattern behind inflated citation counts, and why one page captured 69% of nearly 20,000 citations. Here's what it means for content strategy.

Header image by DALL-E inspired by the sub-head: Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot.

Passage Rank, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and The Future of SEO

I have come to believe that understanding Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), structured data, e.g., Schema.org, and the way that LLMs retrieve and store data is critical in the future of SEO.