Module 1: Architecture of Generative Search Engines
How LLMs, vector search, and web-grounded RAG replace traditional crawlers.
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What this module covers
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- 01Evolution from PageRank and 10 blue links to AI synthesis and generative answers
- 02How ChatGPT Search, Perplexity AI, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot work internally
- 03The Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) search pipeline: query decomposition, vector embeddings, and reranking
- 04Understanding citation attribution algorithms and probability scoring in LLM outputs
- 05Benchmarking traditional SERP ranking factors against generative engine ranking signals




