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GEO Is A Distraction: Here’s Where The Real Opportunity Is

Search Engine Journal· by Marie Haynes ·2026-10-23

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The agentic web is real and worth thinking about, but Marie's framing—that GEO is a distraction—oversimplifies how visibility actually works at the intersection of search and autonomous systems. When agents start making purchase decisions or routing queries based on structured data and APIs, the businesses winning won't be the ones who abandoned traditional search optimization; they'll be the ones who built authority and trustworthiness through both search rankings and machine-readable signals. You need to optimize for where humans still decide what to trust, then architect your data layer so agents can actually recommend you when they're in control. It's not GEO versus agentic readiness—it's GEO as the foundation for the next layer.

From the source: Universal Cart, UCP, WebMCP, intelligent eyewear: the agentic web is arriving. Marie Haynes maps the opportunities most businesses are ignoring.

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