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The headline is a single claim that a named source supports. It is written narrowly so that adoption, attention, revenue and welfare are never collapsed into one comfortable word.

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What this does not establish is the boundary of the evidence. Counterevidence & uncertainty is what argues the other way. What would change the reading is the observation that would move it. A record missing any of the three is incomplete, not merely brief.

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MWITA-ASDO-2026-008 · Evidence B · P1

In a 533-brand commercial-recommendation audit, 48-52% of specialist and regional brands never appeared, while top-tier brands appeared in nearly every relevant retrieval but won only 25-41% of reachable recommendation slots.

What this does not establish

The prominence ladder proxies awareness footprint, not market share or revenue; model recommendation-slot conversion is not a human purchase, click or sale.

Counterevidence & uncertainty

Large brands had retrieval access but often lost the final slot, whereas smaller brands frequently failed before ranking; discovery and persuasion are separate margins.

What would change the reading

Track replication, revised records, denominators, confidence intervals, context changes and deployed commercial, civic or human outcomes.

Primary routes

  1. ASDO-S008https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27439Open source record →

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