Query Implied Generative Engine Optimization

arXiv:2609.27845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The landscape of search has changed drastically with how people look for information online. Traditional search engines are being replaced by Generative Search Engines (GSEs), which use Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language responses to user queries. For content creators, visibility is no longer solely determined by ranking in search results but by being cited within generated responses. But Generative Search Engines are black-boxes, leading to the emergence of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a set of techniques aimed at improving content visibility in generative search settings. Most existing approaches rely on the explicit queries or query derived signals to align content to better suit user needs. We propose Query Implied Generative Engine Optimization (QI-GEO) to infers user intent directly from the document. Our approach approximates document's intent space and identifies content that may be missing yet relevant to answer potential user queries. Evaluation on GEO-Bench and Extended GEO-Bench demonstrated improvements across objective and subjective metrics. QI-GEO improved objective scores by up to 15.9% and subjective scores by up to 17.6%, while yielding nearly twice as many citation gains as citation losses. These results suggest that document-derived approximations of user intents can improve visibility without relying on explicit query inputs.

Abstract:The landscape of search has changed drastically with how people look for information online. Traditional search engines are being replaced by Generative Search Engines (GSEs), which use Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate natural language responses to user queries. For content creators, visibility is no longer solely determined by ranking in search results but by being cited within generated responses. But Generative Search Engines are black-boxes, leading to the emergence of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a set of techniques aimed at improving content visibility in generative search settings. Most existing approaches rely on the explicit queries or query derived signals to align content to better suit user needs. We propose Query Implied Generative Engine Optimization (QI-GEO) to infers user intent directly from the document. Our approach approximates document's intent space and identifies content that may be missing yet relevant to answer potential user queries. Evaluation on GEO-Bench and Extended GEO-Bench demonstrated improvements across objective and subjective metrics. QI-GEO improved objective scores by up to 15.9% and subjective scores by up to 17.6%, while yielding nearly twice as many citation gains as citation losses. These results suggest that document-derived approximations of user intents can improve visibility without relying on explicit query inputs.

Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

arXiv:2609.27845 [cs.IR]

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