AIRANKS — The Authoritative Rankings for AI Web Content

AIRANKS measures AI visibility: we ask AI models real product and service questions, capture the complete answers as immutable observations, and publish what they contain — which brands were mentioned, which domains were cited, and which exact pages were linked. Every domain gets an AIR score from 1–10 (a decile of visibility in the active dataset; 0 means insufficient data), with the methodology in the open.

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The Question

← all rankings / dataset COBALT

Best laptop for college students 2026 mac

Apple takes the top spot in 100.0% of resamples. All 2 ranked brands hold positions we'd call firm.

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answers sampled
0
brands named
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bootstrap resamples

Who AI Cites For This Question

25 cited pages · bars vs the leader

Best MacBook for students 2026: Which Mac should you buy for school or university? | Macworldwww.macworld.commacworld.com/article/670477/best-m…ml?utm=airanks.net162
Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 - Applewww.apple.comapple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-i…5/?utm=airanks.net121
MacBook Air 13-inch and MacBook Air 15-inch - Applewww.apple.comapple.com/macbook-air/?utm=airanks.net101

The Ranking, With Its Uncertainty

Apple locked Apple — ci 1.00–1.00 · n=417 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 97% of answers
Microsoft locked Microsoft — ci 0.00–0.00 · n=417 · 100.0% of resamples held this rank · named in 33% of answers

The Incomparability Lattice

what the intervals separate, not what the list claims

An edge means one brand's interval sits strictly above another's — zero overlap. No edge between two brands is not a gap in the drawing, it is the finding: their intervals overlap, and the bootstrap cannot tell them apart. Brands on the same rung are incomparable, not tied — the ranking above orders them anyway because a list has to print a total order; this diagram is the honest version.

Apple

1.00–1.00

Microsoft

0.00–0.00