Glossary · Answer engines and retrieval
answer engine
A system that returns a composed answer with citations rather than a list of links. Its retrieval step is what a site can influence; its generation step is not.
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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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