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title: "How AI engines find local businesses"
description: "How ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and other AI engines find local businesses, according to their makers, and what to fix for each."
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last_updated: 2026-11-01
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context_version: 2026-11-06
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> Damex Digital is an AI visibility agency that gets businesses named and cited when customers ask AI assistants who to hire. This is the Markdown version of https://damex.digital/ai-engines/

# Nine engines. Nine ways of choosing.

What each maker documents about its crawlers and data sources, how to check what it says about you, and what to fix first.

- [ChatGPT ChatGPT answers local questions with its search feature, which OpenAI says draws on third-party search providers and partner content, and shows nearby business listings from providers it doesn't name. OpenAI](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/chatgpt/)
- [Perplexity Perplexity answers from its own web index, built by its PerplexityBot crawler, and cites the pages it uses. Perplexity AI](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/perplexity/)
- [Google AI Overviews and AI Mode Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are built on Google Search, so a page must be indexed and eligible to show with a snippet before they can use it. Google](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/google-ai-overviews/)
- [Gemini The Gemini app answers local questions using Google services, including Search and Google Maps, where it reads addresses, ratings and opening hours. Google](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/gemini/)
- [Microsoft Copilot Microsoft Copilot answers web questions from Bing search results, and Microsoft says Bing and Copilot share the same crawling, indexing and ranking foundation. Microsoft](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/microsoft-copilot/)
- [Grok Grok answers using public posts on X and real-time web searches. SpaceX Super Intelligence (formerly xAI)](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/grok/)
- [Claude Claude answers web questions with a search feature that cites its sources, and Anthropic says it may use your approximate location for local results. Anthropic](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/claude/)
- [Meta AI Meta AI is the assistant built into Meta's apps. Meta Platforms](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/meta-ai/)
- [Apple Siri and Apple Intelligence Siri and Apple Intelligence answer local questions with Apple's own search technology, built on its Applebot crawler, and with Apple Maps. Apple](https://damex.digital/ai-engines/apple-siri/)

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