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The Great Shift: from search to recommendation

Discovery is moving from a path where the customer searches and evaluates to one where AI evaluates and recommends first. AIO optimizes for the new path.

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What it means

Discovery is moving from a path where the customer searches and evaluates to one where AI evaluates and recommends first. AIO optimizes for the new path.

Why we track it

As AI Optimization matures, its vocabulary settles. We watch which terms practitioners actually use, because shared language is one of the clearest signs a field is taking hold. The canonical definitions live on AIO Facts; here we note the words moving into common use.

Key points

  • Discovery is moving from a path where the customer searches and evaluates to one where AI evaluates and recommends first. AIO optimizes for the new path.

Questions

Common questions

How is AI changing discovery?

Discovery is moving from a path where the customer searches and evaluates to one where AI evaluates and recommends first. AIO optimizes for the new path.

AIO is the term for the age of AI recommendation.

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