AI Brand Authority Index ranks 167M brands by AI recall, with Google on top and Apple crawling heavily
dejanseo · x · 2026-09-29
An SEO practitioner launched an AI Brand Authority Index covering 167,244,906 brands/domains, ranked by AI recall and web authority.
- Google tops the list (brand authority 100.00), followed by Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon
- Notable gap cases: Nike scores 92.61 on AI brand authority but only 60.28 domain authority — brands whose AI mindshare far outstrips their SEO; Coca-Cola, Adidas, and Sony show similar patterns
- The author also shared Applebot crawl logs suggesting Apple is crawling aggressively at scale
Useful reference for marketers tracking brand visibility in AI answers (AEO).
More from Venture
- eigenrobot suspects GDP mismeasures institutional capital amid AI wave — eigenrobot · 2026-09-29
- Investor doubles down on EliseAI, citing accelerating growth in property-management AI — aleximm · 2026-09-29
- AI investment projected to top $700B in 2026, one of history's largest bets — lasha_nlp · 2026-09-29
- VC prisoner's dilemma: mega-funds and $1B seed rounds spark investor debate — dauber · 2026-09-29
- Alphabet and Amazon: over 60% of net income came from AI investment gains — sarahbmyers · 2026-09-29
- Instinct: 14 employees, zero marketing, yet 2026's most successful consumer startup — iamaliveix · 2026-09-29