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What the engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, week of October 5, 2026

What AI answer engines said about Jason Alan Snyder, September 28, 2026 to October 5, 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 October 5, 2026, 207 prompts were answered. 100 of those answers named Snyder, a share of voice of 48 percent, and 39 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, 7 cited evilrobot.com; Engine two: 12 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 0 cited evilrobot.com; Engine three: 19 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 0 cited evilrobot.com; Engine four: 16 of 32 answered prompts named Snyder, 11 cited evilrobot.com; Engine five: 13 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 4 cited evilrobot.com; Engine six: 19 of 35 answered prompts named Snyder, 17 cited evilrobot.com.

Source: our engine panel, 210 prompts, six engines, run of October 5, 2026.

Who the engines named instead

The people the engines named most often on October 5, 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 October 5, 2026.

Which of Snyder's pages were cited

Source: our engine panel, URLs on evilrobot.com in the answers, run of October 5, 2026.

Readers and crawlers

Readers of evilrobot.com, September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026: 55. Pages crawled by the search engine that reports crawl counts, September 29, 2026 to October 1, 2026: 366.

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

Mentions found this week

New third-party pages that mention Snyder, September 28, 2026 to October 5, 2026: 69. The outlets, highest authority first:

Source: our mentions table, rows first seen September 28, 2026 to October 5, 2026.

What changed on the site

Pages in the sitemap with a new last-modified date, September 28, 2026 to October 5, 2026: 2. They are /updates and /updates/engines-week-of-2026-09-28.

Source: our page state table, last-modified and submission dates September 28, 2026 to October 5, 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: /friction-is-formevilrobot.com
  5. Cited page: /aboutevilrobot.com
  6. Cited page: /writingevilrobot.com
  7. Cited page: /about-jasevilrobot.com
  8. Cited for Momentum Worldwide: vertexaisearch.cloud.google.comvertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
  9. Cited for Zana Buçinca: mitsloan.mit.edumitsloan.mit.edu
  10. Cited for Christopher S. Penn: vertexaisearch.cloud.google.comvertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
  11. Cited for Artists & Robots: vertexaisearch.cloud.google.comvertexaisearch.cloud.google.com
  12. Mention: Forbesforbes.com
  13. Mention: LinkedIn · Brodie Flanderslinkedin.com
  14. Mention: momentumww.commomentumww.com
  15. Mention: The Providence Journalprovidencejournal.com
  16. Mention: The Des Moines Registerdesmoinesregister.com
  17. Forbes: We Are Renting Our Brains, And Nobody Reads The Leaseforbes.com
  18. Substack: Loving Something Unsupervisedevilrobot.substack.com
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