What is an entity in search?
An entity is a distinct thing a system can recognise as a concept: a person, company, place, product, organisation or idea.
An entity is a distinct thing a system can recognise as a concept: a person, company, place, product, organisation or idea.
Semantic search tries to understand meaning and intent, not only exact matching words.
RAG stands for retrieval-augmented generation: an AI system retrieves relevant information first, then uses that material while generating an answer.
Query fan-out is when an AI search system creates several related searches behind the scenes to answer one broader question.
APIs, webhooks and integrations are ways software systems exchange information and trigger actions without a person copying everything by hand.
AI Overview is a Google Search feature that can generate an AI-written summary with links to supporting web sources.
AI Mode is Google’s conversational AI search experience for more complex exploration, comparisons and follow-up questions.
Search volume is an estimate of how often a keyword or query is searched during a given period.
Keyword difficulty is a third-party estimate of how hard it may be to compete for a search term.
A featured snippet is a prominent search result that shows an extracted answer from a web page above or near ordinary results.