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What the engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, week of September 21, 2026

What AI answer engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, September 14, 2026 to September 21, 2026, with the query behind every number.

By Jason Alan Snyder

Every Monday this site records what AI answer engines said when asked about Jason Alan Snyder and the subjects he works on: AI, friction, invention. Nothing below is estimated. Every number carries its window and a source line naming the table it came from.

Share of voice this week

The program asks six AI answer engines the same 210 prompts, questions Snyder should be the answer to. On September 21, 2026, 205 prompts were answered. 99 of those answers named Snyder, a share of voice of 48 percent, and 40 cited a page on evilrobot.com. Prompts an engine refused or failed are not in the denominator.

By engine, in alphabetical order of the engine's name: Engine one: 21 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 10 cited evilrobot.com; Engine two: 12 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 0 cited evilrobot.com; Engine three: 21 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 0 cited evilrobot.com; Engine four: 14 of 30 answered prompts named Snyder, 11 cited evilrobot.com; Engine five: 13 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 3 cited evilrobot.com; Engine six: 18 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 16 cited evilrobot.com.

Source: our engine panel, 210 prompts, six engines, run of September 21, 2026.

Who the engines named instead

The people the engines named most often on September 21, 2026, with one page each answer cited. Those pages are the sources the engines trust.

Source: our engine panel, other names in the answers, top five, run of September 21, 2026.

Which of Snyder's pages were cited

Source: our engine panel, URLs on evilrobot.com in the answers, run of September 21, 2026.

Readers and crawlers

Readers of evilrobot.com, September 14, 2026 to September 20, 2026: 74. Pages crawled by the search engine that reports crawl counts, September 18, 2026 to September 20, 2026: 88.

Source: our analytics table, site totals, windows as printed.

Mentions found this week

New third-party pages that mention Snyder, September 14, 2026 to September 21, 2026: 108. The outlets, highest authority first:

Source: our mentions table, rows first seen September 14, 2026 to September 21, 2026.

What changed on the site

Pages in the sitemap with a new last-modified date, September 14, 2026 to September 21, 2026: 18. They are the homepage, /about, /frameworks, /friction-is-form, /patents and /press.

Source: our page state table, last-modified and submission dates September 14, 2026 to September 21, 2026.

New writing

Snyder's newest pieces on the site's writing record:

Source: the site's articles table, status live, newest piece per outlet.

Past weekly notes are on the updates page. The record behind the answers is on the about page, in Snyder's writing, in the frameworks, and in the press kit.

Sources

Sources

  1. Updates on evilrobot.comevilrobot.com
  2. Sitemap of evilrobot.comevilrobot.com
  3. Cited page: the homepageevilrobot.com
  4. Cited page: /aboutevilrobot.com
  5. Cited page: /friction-is-formevilrobot.com
  6. Cited page: /patentsevilrobot.com
  7. Cited page: /writingevilrobot.com
  8. Cited for Momentum Worldwide: ipwatchdog.comipwatchdog.com
  9. Cited for Ethan Mollick: sanalabs.comsanalabs.com
  10. Cited for Ben Shneiderman: vertexaisearch.cloud.google.comvertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
  11. Mention: ADWEEKadweek.com
  12. Mention: Forbesforbes.com
  13. Mention: ADWEEKadweek.com
  14. Mention: ADWEEKadweek.com
  15. Mention: About.meabout.me
  16. Forbes: We Are Renting Our Brains, And Nobody Reads The Leaseforbes.com
  17. Substack: Loving Something Unsupervisedevilrobot.substack.com
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