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Retrieval and RAG

What is Generator?

The component that writes the final answer

The generator is the model that turns instructions and retrieved context into an answer. It may omit, summarize or combine sources even when they were retrieved correctly.

What Generator means in GEO

In a RAG pipeline, publishing is not enough. A page must be discoverable, enter the candidate set and survive reranking.

Why it matters

Write self-contained, verifiable passages that the model can use without inferring information absent from the source.

What to check in practice

Identify the stage where the source disappears: access, initial retrieval, reranking, generator context or citation selection.

How it connects to other concepts

Generator belongs to retrieval and rag. It is best analyzed alongside related terms because AI visibility depends on several stages and signals rather than one isolated optimization.

Common mistake

Blaming final copy when the document never reached the model that writes the answer.

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