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Doubao

ByteDance's assistant, one of the most used AI apps in China and absent from most visibility tools.

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What we ask it

We ask it in Chinese with web search on and record who it names. The Doubao app answers differently from the API and exposes the pool of pages it read before choosing what to cite, so we collect the app surface separately when you want that depth.

What decides whether it cites you
  1. Whether ByteDance's search can find the page

    Doubao retrieves through ByteDance's own search, so the pages that search indexes are what it can cite. Content on ByteDance's platforms is naturally close at hand.

  2. Whether the page survives the candidate pool

    The Doubao app expands the question into keywords, reads a pool of candidate pages, then cites a few. Source can collect that pool, which shows whether your page was read and dropped, or never read at all.

  3. Whether the page is in Chinese with a consistent name

    For questions in Chinese it cites Chinese pages. An English-only site needs a Chinese page, with both names on it, to be a candidate at all.

Questions

Why is the Doubao app collected separately from the API?

Because they answer differently, and only the app exposes the pool of pages it read before citing. The API run is cheaper and daily; the app run is for when you need to know how close a page got.