Acronyms are never innocent. They condense an era’s relationship to reality into three letters. SEO didn’t just mean Search Engine Optimization. It meant: humans adapt themselves to machines that index the world. GEO doesn’t just mean Generative Engine Optimization. It means: humans adapt themselves to machines that
What Is GEO Rewarding really? This is the wrong question, asked the right way. Because AI does not want in the human sense. It has no desire, no intention, no values of its own. And yet, it rewards. So what are we really interacting with when we talk about GEO?
At first glance, SEO, GEO, GSO look like acronyms competing for relevance. New letters. New frameworks. New urgency. But if you step back far enough, something else appears. These are not strategies. They are signals. And the mistake most people make is trying to master each one separately, when they
Generative Search Optimization (GEO) is often discussed in tactical terms: visibility, prompts, rankings, outputs. But beneath the surface, something much deeper is unfolding. Not a technical shift, but a symbolic one. Not just a change in how we search, but in how we relate to intelligence itself. Or perhaps, to
The deep story behind the most transformative invention of our time When we talk about “the web,” we often imagine something abstract, omnipresent, almost inevitable. A natural layer of reality, like electricity or gravity. But the web was neither obvious nor inevitable. It was born from frustration, curiosity, collaboration, and
Search engines are so embedded in our daily lives that we rarely question their existence. We ask, they answer. Instantly. Effortlessly. Invisibly. But search engines were not created merely to retrieve information. Their purpose runs far deeper than speed, convenience, or rankings. At their core, search engines are an attempt
Search has never been so precise. And never so disorienting. We’ve turned it into something intricate, layered, recursive. We measure intent, map journeys, predict needs before they’re fully formed. We optimize for every possible variation of a question and still, something feels off. Because while search is becoming
This is Jiane Benslimane. I work in SEO, and The Human Query exists because something no longer made sense. Somewhere along the way, surrounded by acronyms and systems, we began optimizing blindly, forgetting what the web is actually about. The rise of AI clarified something deeper — not just how intelligent