AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini aren't just tools. They are the new Google. Get this: Over 60% of search queries now generate AI-powered answers. That means clicks to your website are vanishing. ChatGPT alone handles over 10 billion queries a month. And 30% of those have commercial intent. That’s your customer, and they're getting an answer without ever seeing your website. So, how do you win?

LLM Seeding is the process of getting your content into the data pipelines and ecosystems that large language models (LLMs) pull from. Think of it like SEO for AI. Traditional SEO was about ranking higher on Google. LLM Seeding is about being the source that chatbots and AI search engines pull from when they generate an answer. The goal isn’t traffic in the old sense. It’s citations, visibility, and brand authority in the age of AI-driven answers.

Apple's "World Knowledge Answers" (AI Answer Engine) is set to launch in spring 2026, this new engine will be deeply integrated into Siri and the Safari browser. Instead of a list of blue links, it will deliver direct, summarized answers that blend text, photos, videos, and local search results. This isn't just another search update; it's part of the new AI paradigm.