read equivalence
Whether an AI crawler is served the same main text as a person's browser when both fetch a page at the same moment. Pages that serve crawlers something different, or nothing, are exactly the ones an agent will misquote.
What read equivalence means
Normal variation such as dates, rotating blocks and cache churn is separated from real differences before anything is called different.
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The vocabulary for saying how strongly something is known.
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Questions about read equivalence
What is read equivalence?
Whether an AI crawler is served the same main text as a person's browser when both fetch a page at the same moment. Pages that serve crawlers something different, or nothing, are exactly the ones an agent will misquote.
What does read equivalence not show or guarantee?
Pages that serve crawlers something different, or nothing, are exactly the ones an agent will misquote.
Which area of the glossary does read equivalence belong to?
Measurement and evidence: The vocabulary for saying how strongly something is known.
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