Who the AI assistants cite when a patient asks about a facelift

The most recent measurement

The fourth column matters more than the second. Sending an assistant to the web is permission, not obedience: an assistant that answers from memory cites nobody at all, and averaging those in makes a race we were never in look like a race we lost.

Month by month

A query asked several times in one month is counted once, using the latest answer, so the denominator is questions asked and not probes paid for. Months before September 2026 show one assistant because the other three were answering without web access and those answers are withheld.

How this is measured

• The same 52 patient questions every week, fixed in advance, never chosen after seeing an answer.
• Web search is switched on for every question. It is permission to look, not a guarantee the assistant does.
• An answer produced without web access is withheld from the count, never recorded as a zero. A model that cannot reach the web is not evidence about the web.
• A citation means a deepplane.com URL in the answer or in its citation list. A mention of our name without a link does not count.
• Bing and Yandex are measured on the same question list every week, but those results are not yet in the database this page reads, so they are absent here rather than shown as zero.
• This page was read on Sep 10, 2026 and reads the database live on every visit; the figures above carry the date of the run they came from. How we verify everything else

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