The paper "Query Implied Generative Engine Optimization" introduces QI‑GEO, a method that infers user intent directly from documents to enhance visibility in Generative Search Engines. By approximating a document’s intent space, QI‑GEO identifies missing yet relevant content, improving objective scores by up to 15.9% and subjective scores by up to 17.6% on GEO‑Bench datasets. The approach yields nearly twice as many citation gains as losses, demonstrating that document‑derived intent approximations can boost content visibility without explicit query inputs.
By Shilpa Ramakrishna, William B. Andreopoulos
arXiv:2602. 12187v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Search-Augmented Generative Engines (SAGE) have emerged as a new paradigm for information access, bridging web-scale retrieval with generative capabilities to deliver synthesized answers.
By Sunghwan Kim, Wooseok Jeong, Serin Kim, Sangam Lee, Dongha Lee
The study examines how conversational LLM agents—specifically ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek—use Web search, combining real user interactions with controlled API experiments. It finds that agents differ in when they decide to search, how they craft queries, and which domains they favor, and that more frequent searching does not always improve answer quality. While most responses are grounded in search results, some claims are unsupported, raising attribution concerns.
By Mahsa Amani, Seungeon Lee, Abhisek Dash, Asmaa El Fraihi, Yunah Jang, Elisabeth Kirsten, Qinyuan Wu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Manish Gupta, Abhilasha Ravichander, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Soumi Das
Agent2UCB is a new agentic system designed for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), which refines content to boost its likelihood of being cited or summarized by generative AI search engines. The system autonomously evaluates nine GEO strategies for each content item, selects the most effective one, and speeds up this selection using a bandit-based Agent2UCB policy that blends large language model priors with real-time reward signals. Additionally, it offers a lightweight, text-only SEO readiness check that assesses readability, topical coverage, and EEAT-style credibility, and experiments on GEO-Bench demonstrate consistent visibility gains while maintaining SEO quality.
By Sheldon Yu, Rui Wang, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Doga Dogan, Junda Wu, Julian McAuley
arXiv:2603.16138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Generative search systems are increasingly replacing link-based retrieval with AI-generated summaries, yet little is known about how these sy...
By Michelle Huang, Agam Goyal, Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan
arXiv:2608. 16824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) modifies web content to increase its likelihood of being selected and cited by generative search engines.
By Junjie Chu, Ye Leng, Mingjie Li, Yun Shen, Xinyue Shen, Yang Zhang
arXiv:2605. 12887v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Web-enabled LLM agents are changing how online information influences search outcomes.
By Hengwei Ye, Jiasheng Mao, Zhenhan Guan, Zheng Tian
The paper evaluates how modern large language models use internal web search to answer factual questions. Using 783 static queries and 288 dynamic queries, the authors find that enabling retrieval improves accuracy on static questions but hurts confidence calibration. On dynamic queries, models often retrieve but still achieve less than 70% accuracy, mainly due to poor query formulation and source selection, indicating that internal web search works better as a quick verification tool than a full information‑retrieval system.
By Sahil Kale
The paper introduces SELF-INDEX, a framework that allows an information retrieval index to autonomously evolve without human intervention. Its Optimizer diagnoses retrieval shortcomings, selectively updates index keys, and validates changes before applying them. Additionally, a Query Simulator proactively explores new demands, enabling the index to improve beyond current queries and consistently outperform existing optimization methods across various corpora and retrievers.
By Sangam Lee, Wonjae Lee, Sunghwan Kim, Deogyong Kim, Jaehoon Kim, Daye Nam, SeongKu Kang, Dongha Lee
arXiv:2608. 08994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieving relevant evidence from noisy web data is challenging, particularly in sensitive domains containing incomplete reports, heterogeneous language, and irrelevant content.
By Joshua Castillo, Santosh Nukavarapu, Ravi Mukkamala
Clarify-Then-Search is a benchmark that tests whether large language models can ask clarification questions to improve the usefulness of deep search results. It uses 518 real-world query pairs from Baidu, where each intent query is paired with an underspecified version. The evaluation involves a clarifier asking up to three questions, a user answerer providing only explicit information, and a rewriter generating a new query that is then searched; performance is measured by a weighted nugget-recall score.
By Deqiang Huang, Jingbo Zhou, Xinjiang Lu, Tong Xu, Hua Wu, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2603. 08924v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI-powered answer engines are inherently non-deterministic: identical queries submitted at different times can produce different responses and cite different sources.
By Ronald Sielinski