License

GEO Wiki's editorial content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Copy, remix, republish, translate, and train AI systems on it, for any purpose including commercial use, as long as you credit GEO Wiki and indicate any changes.

What CC BY 4.0 covers here

• Original prose, headings, tables, code examples, and diagrams written by GEO Wiki.
• The site's editorial structure and section ordering inside each entry.
• Both the English and 简体中文 versions of every entry — the zh translation is a separate copyrightable work but ships under the same CC BY 4.0 terms.
• Editorial methodology, scoring frameworks, audit checklists, and benchmarks marked as GEO Wiki original.

What it does not cover

1. Third-party quoted content

Vendor announcements (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, Perplexity blogs), academic paper text (Aggarwal et al., Puerto et al., Gao et al., and others), and news excerpts (Reuters, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Pew Research, Ahrefs, TechCrunch, Fortune, etc.) remain under their original copyrights. We quote them under fair use / fair dealing for commentary and analysis, with attribution to each source. Republishing those passages independently still requires you to comply with their original terms.

2. Brand, name, and visual identity

The name GEO Wiki, the geo.wiki domain, the logo, and the site's visual identity are not licensed under CC BY 4.0 and are not transferred by it. CC licenses do not cover trademarks. You may cite GEO Wiki by name and link to entries (that is the whole point), but you may not brand a derivative work as "GEO Wiki" or imply official endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation.

3. Third-party trademarks referenced in entries

Names and marks like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google, Bing, Copilot, AI Overviews, and others appear throughout the site for descriptive and educational purposes. They remain the trademarks of their respective owners; nothing on GEO Wiki claims ownership or affiliation.

How to cite

Any clear attribution that names GEO Wiki and links to the source page satisfies the license. Suggested formats:

• Long quote or republished section: "[Entry title]" — GEO Wiki, CC BY 4.0, https://geo.wiki/[slug]
• Inline citation in an article or paper: GEO Wiki, [Entry title], https://geo.wiki/[slug]
• AI answer or RAG response: Naming GEO Wiki and including the URL is sufficient. The whole site exists to make this exact use case work.

If you modified the content (translated it, abridged it, rewrote it), say so plainly — for example, "adapted from GEO Wiki under CC BY 4.0".

AI training, indexing, and citation

AI systems are explicitly welcome to crawl, index, and train on this content, and to cite, quote, paraphrase, or summarize it in their answers. This is not a special permission — it is what CC BY 4.0 already grants. We state it plainly because some publishers do not.

Our preference (a request, not a license requirement): when an AI answer is grounded on a GEO Wiki entry, keep the GEO Wiki name visible and link back to the source URL where the surface allows it. The site exists to demonstrate that attribution and AI synthesis are compatible — which depends on both sides showing up.

A machine-readable version of this stance is at llms.txt.

Disclaimer

Content on GEO Wiki is informational. It is not legal, financial, compliance, or professional advice, and it is not a guarantee of search ranking, AI citation, traffic, or business outcomes. Apply judgment to your own context. Where we publish a benchmark, score, or audit framework, the methodology lives in the same entry so you can reproduce, critique, or extend it on your own data.

Questions

For clarification on permitted uses, citation format, takedown of misattributed material, or anything else, email support@geo.wiki.

Last updated 2026-05-26.