Is GoGuides still a web directory?
No. The current GoGuides is a hybrid web-evidence system with independent observation, provenance, longitudinal state, deterministic comparison, machine-readable contracts, and bounded derived analysis.
GoGuides FAQ
The short version: GoGuides is independent web-evidence infrastructure. It observes public web state, preserves history, publishes machine-readable records, and separates observed evidence from GoGuides interpretation and downstream decisions.
Basics
What is AI Rank?
AI Rank is a GoGuides-derived 0–100 assessment for the supported scope. It is one interpretation layer, not a universal measure of truth or an outside platform's ranking.
What is a GoGuides observation?
It is stored evidence about public web state GoGuides actually observed, such as URL state, response behavior, selected content fingerprints, structured data, links, policy indicators, and related provenance.
Does “verified” mean the website is true?
No. Ownership or authorization verification is evidence about control or identity. It is separate from content truth, safety, quality, and endorsement.
Evaluation and machine interfaces
What does Evaluate do?
Evaluate returns structured GoGuides evidence, interpretation, policy and eligibility context for the requested domain or supported exact URL through the authoritative scope-specific resolver path.
What is Batch Evaluate?
It evaluates multiple supported exact URLs in one bounded request while preserving the same per-URL evaluation authority as ordinary Evaluate.
What is Web State V3?
Web State exposes compact stored observation evidence for supported content, structured-data, response-header, link, word-count, and AI-policy dimensions.
What is Change Intelligence?
It compares compatible stored observations of the same requested URL and returns explicit change, unknown, observation-gap, or insufficient-history states.
What is Content Relationships?
It compares two exact URLs conservatively using stored evidence without claiming ownership, intent, plagiarism, coordination, or another relationship the evidence cannot establish.
What is Claim Support?
It is bounded model-assisted analysis of one claim against one fixed stored source observation. The resulting analysis remains distinct from the stored source evidence.
Can a caller write GoGuides truth through URL Request?
No. URL Request records explicit request intent and exposes a lifecycle. Authoritative GoGuides state still comes from GoGuides observation and resolver paths.
Where are the formal contracts?
Machine consumers can start with machine-use.json, the OpenAPI 3.1 contract, and the Developer Hub.
Bot Radar
What does Bot Radar observe?
Bot Radar reports qualifying automated requests observed on supported GoGuides surfaces, with domain-specific context where the stored evidence supports it.
Does a bot request prove my site was indexed?
No. A request to GoGuides does not by itself prove that the outside system visited your website, indexed it, trained on it, cited it, recommended it, or relied on it.
Is a User-Agent name verified identity?
No. A User-Agent is a claim. Cryptographically supported machine identity, when available, is separate evidence.
Live Index, submissions and payment
Can I submit a website?
Yes. The public submission flow is for authorized site owners and agencies. Eligibility and GoGuides assessment remain independent of payment.
Does payment improve AI Rank?
No. Payment does not buy a higher AI Rank, better grade, favorable evaluation, policy outcome, or favorable search ranking.
Does GoGuides guarantee AI visibility?
No. Outside systems control their own crawling, indexing, retrieval, ranking, citations, recommendations, training, and traffic.
Verified Text
Verified Text publishes source-attributed normalized text records with stable identifiers, canonical record URLs, licensing context, and SHA-256 integrity metadata. A hash can establish integrity for the defined normalized record; it does not independently prove every proposition in the source is true.
Privacy, safety and limits
GoGuides works primarily with public web evidence and information supplied through its own services. The Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, public guidelines, and Data License govern the relevant public services and data-use terms.
Unknown stays unknown. When GoGuides lacks enough compatible evidence for a supported conclusion, the system should expose uncertainty, insufficiency, or abstention rather than manufacture certainty.