Deep dive: how Google's AI search grounding snippets actually work
dejanseo · x · 2026-11-06
dejanseo compiles a series of analyses on Google AI Search grounding: how grounding snippets are extracted, chunk sizes, grounding source ≠ citation ≠ mention, plus tools like Grounding Snippet Extraction/Ablation/Inspector, and a comparison of grounding in Google vs OpenAI vs Anthropic.
The author argues understanding how snippets are generated and how they affect model output is a core professional duty for SEOs.
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