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How we get our data
Where each number comes from, and what we don't know.
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We don't have a crawl of the whole web, and we don't estimate links we haven't seen. Every number in a result says where it came from.
Search results
We search for your category with the Serper and Brave Search APIs and read the top articles ourselves. Each result names the searches we ran. Search results are reused for up to 30 days, and every row shows the date we checked.
The pages themselves
Our crawler, GetPickedBot, fetches each article and directory page. It obeys robots.txt, fetches slowly, and records the date it checked. The GetPickedBot page explains how to opt out.
AI answers
We ask Google Gemini through its API. That's a proxy: answers in the Gemini app can differ, and change from run to run.
Your uploads
Your file stays private to your workspace. We only add a link to our shared database after we've checked it ourselves.
What we can't see
- Pages that build their content with JavaScript. We read the HTML the server sends.
- Directories that block automated checks. We mark them "can't check".
- Traffic. We don't have traffic data for other sites, so the Link Value Calculator asks for yours.
If a number looks wrong, write to me with the result and I'll check it.