#486 Check monthly whether AI assistants cite OpenChronology

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: athanclark

Whether AI assistants cite or recommend OpenChronology can only be measured by asking them. Wanted: a monthly check, with its results kept as a log to compare month by month.

How: run each query 3 to 5 times in ChatGPT (with search), Perplexity and Google (AI Overviews or AI Mode). Answers vary from run to run, so record a rate, such as "cited 2/5". For each run, note:

• whether OpenChronology or timescale.info is cited, and which page;
• whether it's recommended, not just cited;
• who is cited instead;
• anything stated about it that's wrong.

Queries:

1. free timeline maker with BCE dates
2. open source timeline software for historians
3. timeline tool that shows sources for each event
4. how to make a timeline of deep time / geological time
5. incident timeline from syslog / journald logs
6. self-hosted timeline app
7. OpenChronology vs TimelineJS
8. what is timescale.info

Where to keep it: a table in this issue's comments, or a small timeline on timescale.info itself, one moment per check.

Acting on it:

• Wrong facts: fix the page that should state them.
• Absent: the sources cited instead are the targets for listings and outreach (see the third-party presence issue).

Found in an AI-search audit of timescale.info on 2026-11-06.

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