B
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25.7%
25.7% -- content freshness preference for AI search assistants (2026)
AI assistants prefer content that is on average 25.7% fresher than the broader web.
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Value
25.7%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
17,000,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
quillly.com
Primary
Tier C
https://quillly.com/blogs/publish-blogs-from-claude-desktop-mcp-workflow-2026 ↗
Source Article
Publish Blogs from Claude Desktop: The 2026 MCP Workflow
You can already get Claude Desktop to write a blog post you'd actually publish. The hard part has never been the writing. The hard part is everything that happens after the draft: meta tags, schema, the right slug, an internal link map, an image with proper alt text, a sitemap ping, a canonical URL,…
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quillly.com
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17-million-citation study across seven AI search platforms
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AI search assistants: 25.7% content freshness preference. Source: quillly.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ai-content-freshness-preference
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