Stanislav Kirichenko

What Is Associated with Being Cited in AI Answers? Page, Domain and Query Features on Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Yandex Alice, Russian-Language Queries, October 2026

Search-optimisation advice for AI answers lists dozens of ranking factors, most of them taken from vendor studies that differ in data, platform and method. This preprint compares 38 of them with one snapshot of Russian-language results. The main collection covers 2400 queries in...

Describing the Yandex Top Without Ordering It: On-Page Features of the Top 20 and a Technical Profile of the Top 10 Against Positions 31-49

Preprint with data and code: two observational studies of Russian-language Yandex results that test whether the page properties checked by SEO audits differ between pages that rank higher and pages that rank lower. Part I, on-page. 1 538 query–document observations (1 057 unique...