Definition

Residential proxy

A residential proxy routes a collection request through an IP address belonging to a consumer internet connection in the target country, rather than a datacentre.

Datacentre IPs are both geographically wrong and heavily fingerprinted, so they produce a mixture of blocked requests and non-representative answers.

Residential egress is the single largest variable cost in AI answer collection, and it is why per-sample pricing exists at all.

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Locale Bot detection Collection cost

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AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation)GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)AI Overviews AI Mode Citation share n-sampling Query fan-out Grounding Share of voice (AI)Extraction success rate Surface Answer engine Citation Brand mention Mention rate Confidence interval Statistical significance Citation volatility Non-determinism Reproducibility Identity-free collection Personalisation Locale Bot detection Collection cost Credit Evidence retention Audit trail Parser version Canary prompt Data freshness Cadence Prompt set Head term Long-tail query Competitive set llms.txt robots.txt AI crawler Training crawler Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)Hallucination Answer box Featured snippet Zero-click search Entity Entity salience Knowledge graph Structured data JSON-LD schema.org FAQ schema Answer-first content Chunk Embedding Semantic search Prompt injection Market coverage Sentiment analysis Position tracking White-label data