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Retrieval-augmented generation

Definition

Retrieval-augmented generation is fetching documents at question time and generating an answer grounded in them.

Why it decides whether you get cited

Perplexity and Google AI Overviews retrieve at query time, so current, crawlable, well-structured pages can be cited today.

ChatGPT and Claude answer largely from training data, so being cited there depends on having been published and indexed before the model was trained. Nothing you publish this month appears there this month.

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