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EcoGEO: Trajectory-Aware Evidence Ecosystems for Web-Enabled LLM Search Agents
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摘要
Web-enabled LLM agents are changing how online information influences search outcomes. Existing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) studies mainly focus on individual webpages. However, agentic web search is not a single-document setting: an agent may issue queries, crawl pages, follow links, reformulate searches, and synthesize evidence across multiple browsing steps. Influence therefore depends not only on page content, but also on how pages are organized, connected, and encountered along the agent's browsing trajectory. We study this shift through Ecosystem Generative Engine Optimization (EcoGEO), which treats GEO as an environment-level influence problem for web-enabled LLM agents. To instantiate this perspective, we propose TRACE, a Trajectory-Aware Coordinated Evidence Ecosystem. Given a recommendation query and a fictional target product, our method builds a controlled evidence environment that coordinates an agent-facing navigation entry page with heterogeneous support pages. These pages use shared terminology, internal links, and consistent product attributes to introduce, verify, and reinforce the target product. We evaluate our method on OPR-Bench, a benchmark for open-ended product recommendation. Experiments show that it consistently outperforms page-level GEO baselines in Recommendation. Trajectory-level metrics show improved initial target access and additional internal-link browsing, while follow-up-search effects vary across backbones and comparison methods. Together with the multi-page baseline and ablations, these findings support the role of evidence organization in shaping the agent's evidence-acquisition process. Overall, our findings support an ecosystem research paradigm for GEO, where web-enabled LLM agents are studied in relation to the broader evidence environments that guide search, browsing, and answer synthesis.
作者备注：Accepted at NeurIPS 2026
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EcoGEO: Trajectory-Aware Evidence Ecosystems for Web-Enabled LLM Search Agents
Web-enabled LLM agents are changing how online information influences search outcomes. Existing Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) studies mainly focus on individual webpages. However, agentic web search is not a single-document setting: an agent may issue queries, crawl pages, follow links, reformulate searches, and synthesize evidence across multiple browsing steps. Influence therefore depends not only on page content, but also on how pages are organized, connected, and encountered along the agent's browsing trajectory. We study this shift through Ecosystem Generative Engine Optimization (EcoGEO), which treats GEO as an environment-level influence problem for web-enabled LLM agents. To instantiate this perspective, we propose TRACE, a Trajectory-Aware Coordinated Evidence Ecosystem. Given a recommendation query and a fictional target product, our method builds a controlled evidence environment that coordinates an agent-facing navigation entry page with heterogeneous support pages. These pages use shared terminology, internal links, and consistent product attributes to introduce, verify, and reinforce the target product. We evaluate our method on OPR-Bench, a benchmark for open-ended product recommendation. Experiments show that it consistently outperforms page-level GEO baselines in Recommendation. Trajectory-level metrics show improved initial target access and additional internal-link browsing, while follow-up-search effects vary across backbones and comparison methods. Together with the multi-page baseline and ablations, these findings support the role of evidence organization in shaping the agent's evidence-acquisition process. Overall, our findings support an ecosystem research paradigm for GEO, where web-enabled LLM agents are studied in relation to the broader evidence environments that guide search, browsing, and answer synthesis.
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