Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
AI Mode
Google's conversational search surface, a separate tab and mode from the AI Overview that appears above ordinary results. Both draw on the Search index, but they fan a query out differently, cite differently, and refresh on different cycles, so a page can be cited in one and absent from the other. We appear in Google's AI results is therefore two claims, and a measurement that does not say which surface it read is not reproducible.
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Answer engines and retrieval
How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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