SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE

GroundedGEO: Auditing the Evidence Gap in Generative Search Rankings

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Generative search systems rank products and services for consequential decisions, and publishers can cheaply make candidate text look relevant. Yet evidence status is not a text property but a claim-evidence relation: text-only rankers and defenses cannot separate honest detailed content from fabricated detail, creating an identifiability gap. We audit this gap with an evidence-paired benchmark (50 e-commerce queries, 1,950 cases) and a claim-level reranker, GroundedGEO, that penalizes query-relevant claims lacking support in a supplied packet. Matched rich variants control format and volume;

Read original source ↗ Open in workspace

recordType

paper

region

Global