Reference

Glossary

Short, plain-language definitions for the terms that come up across our research — expanded where it helps.

E

Entity SEO

The practice of helping search and AI systems recognize a brand, person, or concept as a distinct, well-defined entity.

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K

Knowledge Graph

A structured database of entities and the relationships between them, used by search engines to understand real-world things.

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Q

Query Fan-Out

The process by which a generative engine expands a single question into multiple related sub-queries before composing an answer.

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R

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

A technique where a generative model retrieves relevant documents or passages before generating a response, grounding its answer in real content.

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