In five years will we still be talking about SEO rankings?

SEO rankings may soon become invisible metrics behind AI-driven recommendations. Jason Lax, senior SEO and AI expert at SAP with nearly two decades in search, is leading the enterprise shift from traditional SEO into AEO and GEO. He reframes success around recommendation and recognition—being cited as the answer validator rather than just the click-through destination. The discussion centers on redefining ranking as a proxy signal, treating citations as trust recommendations, and building measurement frameworks that track recognition within AI-generated answers rather than page position alone. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.