GEO GLOSSARY
Google’s AI-generated summary that appears above traditional search results for many queries, synthesizing several sources into one answer.
A featured snippet quotes one source verbatim. An AI Overview typically blends several sources into new generated text, with citations to some but not necessarily all of what informed it. A page can contribute to an AI Overview without being visibly credited.
When the summary already answers the question, fewer users click through to any source — see zero-click search. That makes it more important to be the source an AI Overview draws on and names, since that citation may be the only visibility a brand gets from that query.
See how these terms are used in practice in MagRank AI’s methodology.
