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The Detroit News in the Machine Relations Index

detroitnews.com appeared as a cited source in 2 of 36,708 monitored answer runs (under 0.01%) from May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026.

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Self-description

How the site describes itself

Detroit Local News - Michigan News - Breaking News - detroitnews.com

detroitnews.com describes itself this way in its homepage title, read on November 6, 2026. It is the source's own wording, quoted as found, not a finding of this Index.

Citation rateunder 0.01%

2 cited runs of 36,708 observed answer runs.

Days cited2/174

Days with a citation, of the days observed in the current release window.

Engine breadth2

Google AI Overviews, Perplexity. This is an observed-engine list, not a per-engine rate.

ConfidenceCollecting

MRI confidence is not an Answer-Source Fidelity grade.

Standing

Population ranks from the public release

Public standing: Collecting: no rank until it clears the evidence floor
Full universe: Not ranked in this release
Source role population: Not ranked in this release
Evidence-qualified source role: Not ranked in this release

Segment evidence

Observed category and question-shape rows

Segment rates use that category and question shape only. A row still collecting shows how many runs have been measured. A dash means no measured runs yet.

Category	Question shape	State	Cited runs	Observed runs	Run dates	Rate	Rank population	Badge
Consumer Products	Is it worth it	Published	1	313	13	0.32%	#233 of 364	Badge
Logistics & Freight	Comparisons	Published	1	158	9	0.63%	#129 of 206	Badge

Published segments: 2. Collecting segments: 0.

Citation history

Cited runs month by month

detroitnews.com was first cited in a monitored answer run on October 28, 2026, and most recently on November 4, 2026, with cited runs in each of the 2 months from then to this release. The release window opens 2026-05-10, so an earlier citation would not show here.

A month's rate is the share of all monitored answer runs that month that cited this domain. The latest month is still collecting.

Month	Cited runs	Observed runs	Rate
October 2026	1	16,496	0.01%
November 2026 (to November 6, 2026)	1	2,225	0.04%

By answer engine

Which engines cite The Detroit News

An engine's rate is its cited runs over every monitored run that engine answered in the window. Engines answer different numbers of runs, so compare rates, not counts.

Engine	Cited runs	Engine’s observed runs	Rate
Google AI Overviews	1	1,310	0.08%
Perplexity	1	8,786	0.01%
ChatGPT	0	8,667	0.00%
Claude	0	8,706	0.00%
Gemini	0	7,110	0.00%
Google AI Mode	0	2,129	0.00%

Since August 31, 2026, The Detroit News is cited in none of 923 observed Google AI Mode runs. Google AI Mode's collection changed between August 10, 2026 and August 30, 2026, so its row above pools both sides of the change.

Peers

Nearest sources on Logistics & Freight / Comparisons

The Detroit News holds its best segment rank, #129 of 206, in Logistics & Freight / Comparisons, at 0.63%. 91 sources on that leaderboard share that rate, and their order inside the tie is not a measured difference. Listed here: the nearest sources cited more and less often than it, and the sources beside it that share this best segment. Full leaderboard.

Rank	Source	Source role	Segment citation rate	Against this source
#80 of 206	FleetOwner	Editorial publication	1.27%	+0.64 pts
#81 of 206	fleetworks.ai	Other observed source	1.27%	+0.64 pts
#82 of 206	fmicanada.com	Other observed source	1.27%	+0.64 pts
#83 of 206	freightwisellc.com	Other observed source	1.27%	+0.64 pts
#84 of 206	freightzy.com	Other observed source	1.27%	+0.64 pts
#85 of 206	gao.gov	Academic and government source	1.27%	+0.64 pts
#128 of 206	citybiz.co	Other observed source	0.63%	Same rate
#130 of 206	dsij.in	Other observed source	0.63%	Same rate

Cite this

Citation

Machine Relations Index (MRI), Machine Relations Research — machinerelations.ai. The Detroit News (detroitnews.com), under 0.01% citation rate, 2 of 36,708 monitored answer runs, 2026-05-10 to 2026-11-06. Release mri_score_v2.1+2026-11-06+4a9cac5e2d8d. https://machinerelations.ai/index/domains/detroitnews.com. CC BY 4.0.

APA

Parrott, J. (2026). The Detroit News (detroitnews.com) in the Machine Relations Index (Version mri_score_v2.1+2026-11-06+4a9cac5e2d8d) [Data set]. Machine Relations Research. https://machinerelations.ai/index/domains/detroitnews.com https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23652423

BibTeX

@misc{parrott2026mridetroitnewscom,
  author = {Parrott, Jaxon},
  title = {The Detroit News (detroitnews.com) in the Machine Relations Index},
  year = {2026},
  version = {mri\_score\_v2.1+2026-11-06+4a9cac5e2d8d},
  publisher = {Machine Relations Research},
  url = {https://machinerelations.ai/index/domains/detroitnews.com},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23652423},
  license = {CC-BY-4.0},
  note = {Machine Relations Index (MRI), Machine Relations Research — machinerelations.ai}
}

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Release and boundary

What this profile measures

Published November 6, 2026. The observation window runs May 10, 2026 to November 6, 2026. Methodology v2.1.

Use the data

curl -fsSL "https://machinerelations.ai/data/machine-relations-index.json" -o machine-relations-index.json
curl -fsSL "https://machinerelations.ai/data/mri-release-manifest.json" -o mri-release-manifest.json
curl -fsSL "https://huggingface.co/datasets/machine-relations/machine-relations-index/resolve/main/domains.csv" -o domains.csv
curl -fsSL -L "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23652423" -o mri-zenodo.html

import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

index_url = "https://machinerelations.ai/data/machine-relations-index.json"
with urlopen(index_url) as response:
    index = json.load(response)
print(index["generated"], index["total_domains"])

The public dataset reports citation rates, rankings, and evidence counts. It excludes internal query identifiers, raw cited URLs, and answer-engine provider payloads. MRI measures observed root-domain citations in monitored prompts, not all AI answers, recommendation quality, web traffic or commercial performance. A citation is not source support.

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