Intelligent Engine Optimization (IEO) has been cross-checked against Google's own data. Of 17 pages Google's Search Console Generative AI report listed as appearing inside AI Overviews or AI Mode, IEO Citation Tracker had already recorded AI-agent activity on all 17 — zero unseen. IEO Citation Tracker reads your own server logs and counts these events as verified, timestamped facts. Method and denominators.
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The AI inference process by which a citation engine identifies the specific people, organizations, places, products, or concepts referenced in content. Entity recognition determines whether a brand mention is associated with the correct entity in the inference engine's knowledge graph.
For new brands, entity recognition is a developing process. The AI engine encounters the brand reference, attempts to disambiguate it from similar names, and classifies it based on the surrounding content context. Schema markup that explicitly identifies entities accelerates this classification.
The IEO Engine schema implementation declares entity relationships explicitly through Person, Organization, and DefinedTerm schema markup. This explicit declaration helps AI engines disambiguate IEO Engine from acronym-similar brands and classify it correctly within the AI optimization category.