AIO vs GEO vs AEO: how measurement platforms label the same thing three different ways

Key takeaways{...## Key takeaways...- GEO, AEO, and AIO are three labels for overlapping work: making AI systems cite, mention, and recommend your brand. The differences vendors claim are mostly about positioning, not substance.- The terminology keeps fracturing because there is no standardized measurement. No AI platform publishes anything like Search Console data, so every vendor invents its own score, and the methodology determines the score more than your actual visibility does.- The same core metric gets different names across platforms: Semrush calls it