Which answer surfaces we cover
Four surfaces. Plus the one no Western tool touches.
Most GEO tools watch chat clients only. But your customers don't ask in only one place — they scroll Xiaohongshu, search Google, ask Doubao.
Mainland China is its own engine line, not a toggle.
No Western GEO tool covers it. Different engines, different auth, different content ecosystem — it does not fit into the same collection pipeline. We run it as a separate line.
The engine list is convergent — almost all of it comes from US and Chinese vendors. The users and the traffic are not.
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LLM clients
Browser collection against the consumer web client, with query fanout. Run alongside an API pass (model memory, no browsing, no fanout) for contrast — the gap between them is the gap between “looked up” and “learned”.
ChatGPTGeminiCopilotPerplexityDoubaoDeepSeekTongyi · QuarkYuanbaoKimi - 02
Search engine AI summaries
That block of AI answer above the results. What it pushed off the screen is exactly the blue link you spent years optimizing.
Google AI OverviewsGoogle AI ModeErnie · Baidu AI Search - 03
Social media AI summaries
The social platforms' own AI answers. Discovery and preference happen here, and almost no GEO tool counts it.
Xiaohongshu - 04
Social search autosuggest
The few lines under the search box. They are demand in its raw shape — what users are thinking before they have found the words.
Xiaohongshu