GEO glossary

Vector Embedding

Vector Embedding is a numerical representation of content that captures patterns of semantic similarity.

Why this matters for GEO

Embeddings help some retrieval systems match questions to passages.

Related terms

• Retrieval
• Semantic Search
• Vector Database
• Reranking
• Hybrid Retrieval
• Large Language Model (LLM)

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Updated November 2026.