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GEO, Two Years In: What 16 Primary Sources Reveal About the Truth, the Lies, and the Money
A fact-first look at Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) after verifying 16 primary sources: the KDD 2024 paper, Pew click-through data, Google's official stance, Cloudflare's pay-per-crawl, llms.txt reality, the CCTV 315 poisoning case, and the noise economy of 110+ Chinese vendors.