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Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) for Product Discovery
Optimising product and brand content to be surfaced and cited by AI shopping and answer engines.
As shoppers increasingly ask AI assistants "what should I buy" instead of searching, AEO is rapidly becoming as important a discipline as SEO was for the search-engine era — and far less understood today.
Signals behind this placement
- —Shoppers increasingly ask AI assistants what to buy instead of running a search query.
- —Most commerce teams have not yet budgeted for optimisation against AI answer surfaces.
Marketing
From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.
An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.