Facebook Beacon
–Too few to rank
1/14Models named it
0First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
What AI models recommend
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Facebook Beacon has 1.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Facebook Beacon (2007) - While discontinued, this remains a cautionary tale. It automatically shared users' off-Facebook activities with friends without clear consent”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
The sites and pages the answers that named Facebook Beacon came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 1 of the 1 answers that named Facebook Beacon and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
bbb.org1
beacon.li1
cmswire.com1
fastercapital.com1
g2.com1
growthmarketreports.com1
help.beacons.ai1
legal500.com1
linkedin.com1
marketresearchfuture.com1
No domain is on file for Facebook Beacon, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
How each model answered on Facebook Beacon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |