CiteRankmeasuredmeasured 2026-09-12A question is put to a live answer engine through a real browser and the answer it returns is recorded: one row per question per engine per run. Nothing is inferred from search rank; a citation counts when the engine actually produced it.
Measured 2026-09-12 by CiteRank. Read into this register 13 Sept 2026. Toolproof measured nothing here.
CiteRank measures how often answer engines cite a site when a buyer asks about its category. That number moves for reasons its owner does not control, so a badge would be a scoreboard the embedder is losing. A badge is a thing a maintainer displays about themselves, and this is not one. The index is published in full.
Refusing to mint a badge that could only ever be used against its subject is the reason to trust the seven that are minted.
CiteRank answers about nobody by design, so there is no per-subject reading to hold. Its figures are above, its method is above them, and the index is published in full at its own address.
Four kinds of answer, kept apart: a reading, an index that answered and holds nothing, an index that did not answer, and an index that was never the right one to ask. Collapsing the fourth into the second would be a statement about a subject that nobody made.