3Dogs Research · Citation Observatory

Recorded citations for decision-intelligence questions

A bounded analysis of 3Dogs Citation Observatory records comparing branded and adjacent-query citations across named engines, dates and source domains.

Prepared by: 3Dogs Research · Reviewer: 3Dogs internal research review · Revision: 2026-08-18 · First-party review, not independent validation.

Evidence boundary. This analysis separates query-level observations, engine-and-topic aggregates, and the corpus-level rollup because those layers can overlap and must not be added together. This report was generated from candidate records only; the underlying probes were not rerun.

What this bounded corpus shows

Displayed record layers; do not add overlapping layers
LayerRoutesDisplayed fields
Query observations742 displayed runs; 29 recorded 3Dogs-cited attempts; sample distribution n=6: 7 records
Engine/topic aggregates12Separate aggregate fields total 0 brand-question records and 194 generic-question records; these are not deduplicated unique queries
Corpus rollup1Separate layer: 30 recorded 3Dogs citations across 500 displayed records

Frequently recorded domains in the query layer

Counts below are raw URL occurrences on the included query records. They are not rankings, quality scores, endorsements, unique-page counts or market share.

  1. medium.com — 2 recorded query-page URL occurrences
  2. arcaq.com — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  3. blog.exceeds.ai — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  4. braincuber.com — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  5. cloudqubes.com — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  6. docs.venice.ai — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  7. g8e.ai — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  8. github.com — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  9. hyscaler.com — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence
  10. letsdatascience.com — 1 recorded query-page URL occurrence

Exact evidence map

Query observations

Engine and topic aggregates

Corpus rollup

Reproducibility and limits

Understand the Pointer visibility method · Evaluate decision-intelligence software · Review published plans