# 22% of the citations behind the answers point at a vendor's own site, and 6% at a review site.

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/research/what-the-answers-cite

Fourteen of the fourteen models return the sources they read before answering. Across the 9,788 answers that carry a source list, 108,083 citations name 723 sites. This page counts them: which sites the answers cite, how much of the citing goes to the vendors themselves, and how much to the review sites that sell placement. It is a fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

## The sites cited most

- g2.com: 3193 citations in 2034 answers (review site)
- github.com: 1446 citations in 833 answers (vendor: GitHub Secret Scanning)
- gane.ai/index: 1025 citations in 813 answers
- reddit.com: 894 citations in 468 answers
- softwareadvice.com: 773 citations in 644 answers (review site)
- capterra.com: 688 citations in 467 answers (review site)
- microsoft.com: 675 citations in 315 answers (vendor: Microsoft's Attack Simulation Training)
- sourceforge.net: 632 citations in 493 answers (vendor: SourceForge)
- peerspot.com: 587 citations in 409 answers (review site)
- expertinsights.com: 523 citations in 485 answers
- securityboulevard.com: 519 citations in 377 answers
- guideflow.com: 516 citations in 490 answers (vendor: Guideflow)
- aimultiple.com: 440 citations in 404 answers
- cloudflare.com: 362 citations in 199 answers (vendor: Cloudflare's WAF)
- dev.to: 353 citations in 257 answers
- learn.microsoft.com: 326 citations in 198 answers (vendor: Microsoft's Attack Simulation Training)
- ciopages.com: 311 citations in 304 answers
- cybersecuritynews.com: 273 citations in 249 answers
- csoonline.com: 236 citations in 235 answers
- startwithidentity.com: 235 citations in 175 answers
- techtarget.com: 224 citations in 195 answers
- paloaltonetworks.com: 221 citations in 180 answers (vendor: Palo Alto Talon)
- gartner.com: 217 citations in 153 answers (review site)
- getapp.com: 215 citations in 171 answers (review site)
- fortinet.com: 212 citations in 130 answers (vendor: Fortinet IoT Security)
- spotsaas.com: 202 citations in 157 answers
- ones.com: 201 citations in 122 answers (vendor: ONES)
- akamai.com: 195 citations in 129 answers (vendor: Akamai Linode)
- aws.amazon.com: 195 citations in 118 answers (vendor: AWS native tools)
- startupstash.com: 193 citations in 180 answers

23339 of 108083 citations (22%) to a vendor's own site; 5956 (6%) to a review site.

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