Glossary
What are AI Overviews?
AI Overviews are summaries written by Google’s AI and shown at the top of some search results. Each summary links to the pages it drew from.
Why it matters
An AI Overview takes the space where the first organic results used to be. Pages cited inside it keep their visibility, while pages below it are seen less often.
Google decides per search whether to show one, and the cited sources can change from day to day. That makes them harder to track than classic rankings.
How we handle it
Pages that are cited tend to answer the question directly and rank well for it already. We work on both: a clear answer near the top of the page, and the usual SEO work that gets the page ranked.
Related service: Answer engine optimization services
Related terms
Keep reading
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Answer engine optimization (AEO)
Answer engine optimization is the work of structuring content so that a search engine can use it as the direct answer to a question.
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Featured snippet
A featured snippet is a short answer that Google shows above the regular results, taken from one web page.
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Generative engine optimization (GEO)
Generative engine optimization is the work of getting a brand mentioned and cited in answers written by AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini.
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