This is a fast, practical list focused on AE (Answer Engines that surface AI answers in results) and GEO tools and engines.
Top 10 AE answer engines
- Google AI Overviews — https://www.google.com/ (region availability varies)
- Microsoft Copilot (Bing) — https://copilot.microsoft.com/
- Perplexity (answer engine) — https://www.perplexity.ai/
- Brave Search Summarizer — https://search.brave.com/
- DuckDuckGo AI Answers — https://duckduckgo.com/ (see Instant Answers/AI Chat)
- Kagi Quick Answer/Summarizer — https://kagi.com/
- Phind (developer search) — https://www.phind.com/
- Andi Search — https://andisearch.com/
- You.com (AI search) — https://you.com/
- NeevaAI (historical reference) — https://neeva.com/ (service discontinued; influential in AE)
Top 10 GE tools and engines
- Perplexity (answer engine) — https://www.perplexity.ai/
- ChatGPT with browsing — https://chat.openai.com/
- Microsoft Copilot (Bing) — https://copilot.microsoft.com/
- Google Gemini — https://gemini.google.com/
- Common Crawl (web corpus) — https://commoncrawl.org/
- CCBot info (Common Crawl bot) — https://commoncrawl.org/bot
- Schema.org Validator — https://validator.schema.org/
- JSON‑LD Playground — https://json-ld.org/playground/
- Facebook Sharing Debugger (Open Graph) — https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/
- Twitter Card Validator — https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator
Related
- AEO vs GEO: what’s the difference? — /blog/aeo-vs-geo
- GEO: how to maximize visibility — /blog/geo
Notes
- AEO and GEO share fundamentals: clear, intent‑matched content, strong structure, and robust metadata. The tools above help validate and preview how machines parse and present your pages.
- For GEO visibility, ensure you aren’t unintentionally blocking relevant crawlers; see your robots.txt and server logs.