For the last six months, the SEO community has been chasing ghosts. We treat Grokipedia as if it were just another search engine—a black box that inputs URLs and outputs rankings. But Grokipedia is not a search engine. It is a Reasoning Engine, and its ingestion pipeline is fundamentally different from the crawlers we have known since the 90s.

Thanks to a recent leak of the libgrok-core dynamic library, we now have a glimpse into the actual C++ logic that powers Grokipedia’s “Knowledge Graph Injection” phase. It doesn’t “crawl” pages; it “ingests” entities.