{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The GEO Show","title":"Perplexity Is Citing Pages Google Would Ignore","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/fb0eaba5\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":856,"description":"Welcome to episode 17 of The GEO Show, the briefing on generative engine optimization, LLM citations, and AI search visibility. Brought to you by GEOforge.\n\nIn this episode, Paris Childress, founder of Hop AI and co-founder of GEOforge, walks through a Thursday, September 3, 2026 docket that starts with Perplexity citing mass-generated best-software pages, then moves through model-version visibility, recommendation versus citation, vendor deals, and bot management as part of the GEO stack.\n\nIn this episode:\n\n📉 Perplexity is citing pages Google would ignore\nTrelner tested 380 software categories across Perplexity, Sonar, and Sonar Pro and collected 7,534 citations. 59.8% came from domains outside the top 100,000 on Tranco Traffic. GuideFlow, a product demo vendor, was the third most cited domain, ahead of Gartner. Three related sites held 215,128 generated best-category software pages, some titled \"Facts and Grounding Page.\" Retrieval can reward sources with little conventional authority if they align with machine retrieval. SEO authority and GEO citation authority are diverging. Audit which URLs ground competitor recommendations, not just backlinks.\n\n⚡ Google AI Mode is rolling Gemini 3.8 Flash\nSearch Engine Land: Google began rolling Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode for Google AI Pro and Ultra users globally. The model is described as materially improved in multi-step reasoning and agentic tasks. AI search visibility is partly model-version dependent. A prompt benchmark can shift without the brand changing anything. Record model and date in GEO measurement and rerun controlled baselines after major model changes.\n\n🎯 Citations are intermediate. Recommendation is the goal\nAt Search Seoul, Yoonhee Choi, RTN's SEO director, argued GEO should move from get-cited toward make-AI-choose-us: structure the relationships among brand, product, capabilities, user needs, and use cases so AI knows when to recommend a brand. Knowledge structuring and ontology beat publishing more...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7cDHOTKwTPJbamMzkSU5XMeYqbfRSPk5nMQ6zhbTeaI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kY2Ri/MGIyZjViNzJiODc5/ZGM5MmJhYmE4NmYx/MTVhYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}