Microsoft Copilot generates answers by retrieving factual passages from the Bing search index through an orchestration layer called Prometheus, then synthesizing those passages using OpenAI GPT-4o models, extracting concise evidence chunks from high-confidence web pages and displaying clickable citation footers. Securing brand citations in Copilot requires direct Bing indexation, fast passage discovery via the IndexNow protocol, and clear entity reconciliation within the Microsoft Knowledge Graph. Search Atlas research analyzing 21,767 commercial queries reveals that Microsoft Copilot shares only 11.8% URL overlap and 14.2% domain overlap with top-ranking Google search results, while Copilot shares a 41.3% URL citation overlap with top-5 Bing organic rankings. Brands that ignore Bing Webmaster Tools remain invisible in Copilot, regardless of their Google organic positions. IndexNow protocol reduces new content discovery latency from 72 hours down to under 45 minutes, static HTML comparison tables yield 3.4 times higher passage extraction rates than client-side JavaScript tables, and JSON-LD entity disambiguation linking to Wikidata and Crunchbase establishes verified knowledge graph relationships. Google search rankings have zero algorithmic influence on Microsoft Copilot, which relies exclusively on Bingbot crawl data and Bing indexation.