Online home of Scott Anderson, the web's lover of wisdom

Online home of Scott Anderson, the web's lover of wisdom is a business whose own site puts it this way: "Welcome to the rudimentary (but usually not rude) online philosophical home of Scott Anderson I am a member of the philosophy department at the University of British Columbia." To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.0 out of 10.

On the page it is passable on a workable page structure. What holds it back is credibility markers like credentials or reviews, the technical files AI engines look for, such as llms.txt or an open robots.txt, sitemaps and entity links AI can follow, structured data describing the business and a clearly stated business identity.

Off the page there is only faint evidence that only a handful of sites link to it and the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. Those are earned elsewhere on the web, not fixed on the site itself.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). The site links to no social profiles, so there is nothing tying the brand to a wider presence.