AI writing patterns across 10,126 pages of real marketing copy
// the dataWhat 10,126 pages of real marketing copy look like under a rulesetEvery figure here comes from scans people actually ran, between 2026-08-14 and 2026-09-14. No site is named: these are other people's sites, crawled from a URL someone pasted in, and none of their owners signed up to appear in a write-up.Measured 2026-09-14. Figures are a fixed snapshot, not a live counter.103sites scanned10,126pages crawled23,000flagged instances2.27flags per pagethe median page is far cleaner than the meanMost sites are fine.
- ▪// the dataWhat 10,126 pages of real marketing copy look like under a rulesetEvery figure here comes from scans people actually ran, between 2026-08-14 and 2026-09-14.
- ▪No site is named: these are other people's sites, crawled from a URL someone pasted in, and none of their owners signed up to appear in a write-up.Measured 2026-09-14.
- ▪Figures are a fixed snapshot, not a live counter.103sites scanned10,126pages crawled23,000flagged instances2.27flags per pagethe median page is far cleaner than the meanMost sites are fine.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | SiteTell |
| Canonical URL | https://www.getsitetell.com/data |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:32:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T12:38:41.498Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T12:38:41.498Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Xff00psKBNAM · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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// the dataWhat 10,126 pages of real marketing copy look like under a rulesetEvery figure here comes from scans people actually ran, between 2026-08-14 and 2026-09-14. One scan per site, the most recent. No site is named: these are other people's sites, crawled from a URL someone pasted in, and none of their owners signed up to appear in a write-up.Measured 2026-09-14. Figures are a fixed snapshot, not a live counter.103sites scanned10,126pages crawled23,000flagged instances2.27flags per pagethe median page is far cleaner than the meanMost sites are fine. The tail is not.The median site scores 90/100, and 10 of 103 carry no flags at all. The number worth attention is at the other end: on 17% of sites, at least one page scores under 60.
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