AI Search & GEO / AEO

ChatGPT search

ChatGPT Search incorporates real-time web search within ChatGPT, allowing its hundreds of millions of active users to obtain current information without first visiting a traditional search engine. The conversational interface encourages natural follow-up questions, giving brands introduced in an initial summary further opportunities to appear later in the conversation. Because freshness is important to the feature, content with explicit publication dates and clearly current information is often considered a useful source format.

Business applications and impact#

Creates a potential referral channel from ChatGPT users seeking information through conversational answers.

Implementation guidance and considerations#

Provide timely information and clear source attribution on pages intended to support real-time answers.

Answer Engine Optimization

AEO

A strategy for optimizing content so that brands and their content can be cited in the single answers generated by AI search systems or voice assistants.

AI Mode

AI Mode

A search engine mode that replaces a results-list interface with conversational AI answers and interactive exploration.

AI Overviews

AI Overviews

A Google Search feature that synthesizes multiple web sources into an AI-generated summary with source links at the top of the results page.

AI Visibility

AI 가시성

The frequency and share of brand appearances in answers from generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.

AI Search

AI 검색

Search that uses large language models to understand context and synthesize web results into natural-language answers rather than relying solely on keyword matching.

AI Search Optimization

AI 검색 최적화

The work of making website content easier for generative AI search engines to understand and consider as a trustworthy source.