Training data
Training data is the enormous body of text AI search learned from before it was released, which is fixed, often months or years old, and cannot be edited by you.
In a little more detail
If a brand has been written about constantly for years, its name can surface from this memory with no page fetched at all. That route is real and it is closed to almost everybody. It is worth understanding only so that you stop hoping for it and put the effort into retrieval instead.
Related terms
- Retrieval: Retrieval is the step where AI search fetches live web pages in the middle of answering you, instead of relying only on what it already knows.
See it on your own site
The scan reads your site the way AI search does and reports where you stand on this and sixteen other checks.