Definition
A system that answers the user's question directly instead of returning a list of links — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews. Where a search engine ranks pages, an answer engine writes a reply and cites (or omits) its sources; being one of those sources is the goal of GEO.
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