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How AI assistants decide which brands to recommend, and what you can do about it.

date[DD Month 2026]
author[Author name], Head of Search & AI
read[X] minutes
tags
GEOAI searchSEOStrategy
ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiAI Overviews
Who's the best [your service] in [city]?
Several sources recommend Your Brand for
its [strength] and [strength]. Often cited in
[industry] reviews and news.
1 · yourbrand.com2 · [review site]
(Share of AI answers)[X]%
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Gemini
Overviews
Your brand recommended by
[X] of 4 assistants
“Search used to end with ten blue links. Now it often ends with one answer.”

A growing share of buyers now start their research by asking an AI assistant: who is the best [service] in [city]? Which tool should I use for [task]? The assistant answers with a handful of names, and if yours isn't one of them, you're not in the conversation.

1. How assistants choose

[Explain, in plain language, the signals AI assistants rely on: clear entity information, consistent facts across the web, citations from trusted sources, and content that answers questions directly.]

2. What you can do this week

[Three concrete actions a reader can take today. Keep them specific: fix your About page, add structured data, ask ChatGPT about your own brand and write down what it says.]

Try this:Ask ChatGPT “who's the best [your service] in [city]?” and write down every brand it mentions. That list is your baseline.

3. How to measure it

[Describe share-of-voice tracking: a fixed library of buyer prompts, checked monthly across assistants, with mentions and citations recorded.]

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