Case study ·
How a three-person company got cited by Grokipedia (and why the first attempt achieved nothing)
Original title, in French: “Comment une boîte de trois personnes s'est fait citer par Grokipedia (et pourquoi la première tentative n'a servi à rien)”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Keviambal Vidal-Langlois
- Published on
- 5 October 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
Keviambal Vidal-Langlois, president of Noukaz, a property portal in Mauritius (three people), describes her attempt to have her site cited as a source by Grokipedia, the encyclopaedia generated by Grok. A first request to add a source, at the end of August, left no trace, and the page was regenerated citing competitors but not Noukaz. A second attempt, at the end of September, consisted not in asking for a citation but in correcting a methodological error in the existing text (the use of the mean rather than the median in a property market with extreme values), backed by sourced figures. This correction was taken up almost word for word, and Noukaz's site is now cited among the page's sources. The author draws a general lesson for companies that want to appear in generative AI answers: offer a verifiable correction rather than a request for addition.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Classification
- Country
- Mauritius
- Company size
- Micro-businesses
- Industries
- Construction, civil engineering, real estate
- Companies
- Grokipedia (supplier), Noukaz (deploys AI)
- Keywords
- generative AI visibility, grokipedia, AI search optimisation, sources cited by AI, property, content strategy
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.