MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
BBC News vs The Guardian — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Verdict
The Guardian outscores BBC News on Modern Citation Reference by 3 points (A · 86 vs B · 83).
News
BBC News
bbc.com
B·83
Rank #67 of 130 on Modern Reference
44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.
Higher Modern Reference
News
The Guardian
theguardian.com
A·86
Rank #45 of 130 on Modern Reference
No paywall = full LLM training corpus inclusion; rich Article schema; multi-language editions.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
BBC NewsB·83
Modern Reference · 83/100
44-language coverage = unusually high LLM corpus inclusion across non-English contexts.
The GuardianA·86
Modern Reference · 86/100
No paywall = full LLM training corpus inclusion; rich Article schema; multi-language editions.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
BBC News
- Language coverageArticles in 44 languages → broad multilingual training data.
The Guardian
- Open-webReader-funded model keeps all content publicly retrievable.
Other dimensions for BBC News vs The Guardian
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