What is Answer Engine?

A tool that answers a question directly instead of returning a list of links: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview.

Answer engines retrieve sources, synthesise a response, and cite some of what they used. The user's destination is the answer itself, so being one of the cited sources - rather than one of ten ranked links - is what earns visibility.

Also known as: AI engine, AI answer engine.