a german court just ruled that google is legally liable for what its ai overviews say. they're google's own words now, not "third-party content."
the second-order effect nobody's pricing in: a liable engine is a conservative engine. conservative engines cite fewer, safer, better-documented sources. ambiguous or absent brands fall out of the answer entirely.
so, want to know if you're in the answer at all? reply with your domain. i'll run a real scan and post your score in this thread. chatgpt, claude, perplexity, gemini. first 15 sites, free, no signup.