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talk Monday, April 27, 2026 3:30 PM4:00 PM· Day 01 · The Science

Everything Is an Entropy Game: What Dies Between Retrieval and Citation

SEO Week Main Venue

Speaker

Metehan Yeşilyurt
Metehan Yeşilyurt

Co-Founder & CGO, AEO Vision

Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at AEO Vision. Spent a year reverse-engineering how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI choose citations — proving entropy reduction is the new SEO.

Abstract

A year reverse-engineering how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI pick citations. AI doesn't reward quality — it rewards certainty. Entropy reduction is the new SEO.

Suggested takeaways

  • Entropy-based decoding in RAG is real
  • Rerankers are confidence machines
  • Information gain = next-gen reranking frontier

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SEO Week 2026 · Everything Is an Entropy Game: What Dies Between Retrieval and Citation

Monday, April 27, 2026 · Metehan Yeşilyurt

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