Grounding is an AI engine basing its answer on retrieved documents — pages fetched at answer time — rather than only on what the model learned in training.
A grounded answer cites its sources, and the sources are pages that could be read. Grounding is why crawler access and readable HTML decide whether you appear.
Perplexity and ChatGPT search show their sources; those are the grounding documents.
Checked by Reflexa: Is your text in the HTML, or only after JavaScript runs? — part of the 23 checks on every page check.
Grounding is an AI engine basing its answer on retrieved documents — pages fetched at answer time — rather than only on what the model learned in training.
A grounded answer cites its sources, and the sources are pages that could be read. Grounding is why crawler access and readable HTML decide whether you appear.
Perplexity and ChatGPT search show their sources; those are the grounding documents.
The free page check runs the 23 checks on your public pages — the terms on this page, observed on your pages.