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Grounding Snippet
A short, extractive selection of sentences pulled from a page and supplied to an AI model as the evidence it grounds an answer on; the atomic unit of visibility in AI search.
A grounding snippet is a short, extractive selection of sentences pulled from a page and supplied to an AI model as the evidence it grounds an answer on. Non-contiguous sentences are joined by an ellipsis, giving the familiar segment … segment … segment shape. It is the atomic unit of visibility in AI search.
It is produced during grounding, after query fanout. Full article: Grounding Snippets.
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Grounding Snippets
Grounding snippets are the short, extractive sentences AI systems pull from your page to build their answers: the atomic unit of AI-search visibility, where most of your page never makes the cut.