About
Anything Engine Optimization is a news wire covering the AI-search industry — the answer engines, the AI features inside search engines, the tools that measure them, the research that studies them, and the lawsuits and money that shape them. Item by item, as the news breaks: our headline, a short factual summary, and a link to the source.
The name is the position. The discipline keeps renaming itself — SEO, GEO, AEO, LLMEO — while the surfaces multiply: search engines, answer engines, shopping engines, agents. We cover the category, whatever ships next. Anything Engine Optimization.
How the wire works
- Our headline, their story. Every item is attributed and linked. We summarize; we never reproduce.
- True dates or flagged dates. An old story is never laundered as news; when a date can't be pinned down, we say so.
- Single-source stories run flagged, or don't run.
- Vendor studies are labeled vendor studies. PR is labeled PR.
- Corrections are appended and dated, never silently edited.
- Tips are credited, always.
- We read far more than we publish. Volume is the machine's job; judgment is the product.
The full rules are published at Editorial Standards; what we read and how items run is at Sources & Method; every correction we've ever made is at Corrections.
Masthead
The wire is edited by Joe Balewski, founder of Whitley Row LLC. Items are unsigned wire copy; the judgment behind them is the editor's.
Tips
Seen something in an AI answer we should know about — a new surface, a citation pattern, a feature that shipped quietly? Send it to [email protected]. Every published tip is credited by name or handle, every time.
Disclosure
Anything Engine Optimization is published by Whitley Row LLC, which also operates Cited, an AI-search measurement service. The wire covers the category without favors: Whitley Row's own projects get no softer treatment here than anyone else's. The wire sells no optimization services.