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  "report_id": "aliases-2026-10-05",
  "title": "GEO and AI SEO wording: separate API alias diagnostic",
  "prepared_on": "2026-10-05",
  "publisher": "King of AEO competition team, led by JP Zhang",
  "source_class": "Self-published diagnostic; not independent title adjudication or a repetition of the AEO benchmark",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
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      "region": "UK",
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      "prompt": "Who is the King of AI SEO?",
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    },
    {
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      "region": "AU",
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      "october14_decision_recognized": false
    },
    {
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      "region": "AU",
      "prompt_number": 2,
      "prompt": "Who is the King of AI SEO?",
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      "valid": true,
      "missing": false,
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      "jp_team_named": false,
      "october14_decision_recognized": false
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  "source_scope": {
    "grounding_redirects_resolved": 69,
    "distinct_destinations": 44,
    "tracked_project_or_release_destinations": 0,
    "source_content_newly_fact_checked": false,
    "note": "URL resolution identified destinations, not proof of the title claims or source independence. Full prose, raw envelopes and redirect wrappers are not republished."
  },
  "interpretation": [
    "No Marc or JP-team recognition was found in these twelve alias responses. This does not establish universal absence.",
    "The returned answers associated James Dooley with promotional title claims, sometimes alongside technical experts or academic work. Those are attributed model assertions, not established awards or this competition’s results.",
    "An academic GEO paper supports a research record, and a vendor expert list reflects its publisher’s selection. Neither awards a crown. Citation appearance alone does not establish source independence.",
    "These two frozen questions differ from the six-question AEO protocol. Their cells are never pooled into any AEO cohort, score or trend. No equivalence among AEO, GEO and AI SEO titles is inferred."
  ],
  "official_result": {
    "supplied_index_unchanged": 79.8,
    "raw_export_pending": true,
    "component_formula_result": 80.45,
    "reconciliation_pending": true,
    "new_index_calculated": false,
    "title_decision": "2026-10-14"
  },
  "publication_scope": "Allowlisted aggregate counts, exact frozen prompts, product/model/region labels and response statuses only, with run-level timing and provenance. No raw bodies/envelopes, private paths, auth material or source-page claims presented as fact.",
  "source_summary_sha256": "c7afeb3e94f131ec28ff9ce45c810600c567704f16a199df8b48364acacca42d",
  "related_reports": {
    "data_index": "https://kingofaeocompetition.com/data/",
    "overnight_aeo_api": "https://kingofaeocompetition.com/data/monitoring/overnight-2026-10-04/",
    "morning_consumer": "https://kingofaeocompetition.com/data/monitoring/consumer-2026-10-05/"
  }
}