The AI Citation Index for Commerce
Which sources AI shopping agents quote when they answer product questions, and what that means for UGC. In plain English.
Strategic report. The case for UGC as the AI-discoverability layer. Planned methodology: product queries run against ChatGPT Shopping, Perplexity, Google AI Overview and Amazon Rufus, with the source of each quoted snippet logged and classified.
Composite benchmarks from Bazaarvoice, Stackla / Nosto, Olapic and Trustpilot are referenced as comparators, with the rate at which each source type gets quoted broken out.
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What’s inside
- Citation rate by source type (verified review / UGC photo / studio copy / PDP body)
- Per-agent breakdown (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google, Amazon)
- Where studio content still wins, and why
- Composite source map vs single-engine measurement
- Methodology + queryset + classifier definitions
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