AI search engines are tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity that use artificial intelligence to generate answers rather than just listing links. Instead of showing you ten blue links and letting you figure it out, these tools read, synthesize, and summarize information from across the web, then present a direct answer. For businesses, this means your website needs to be structured in a way that these systems can understand and cite. That is the core of AEO, and it is a key part of what we do at The Creative Depot. See our FAQs on AI search visibility for more.