When a customer asks an AI assistant "Can you recommend a reliable … in Antalya?", does your business appear in the answer? We looked at the data of the businesses tracked on our platform. The result: AI knows local businesses, but rarely recommends them when a customer asks.

Summary

  • 93.9% — share of checks in which the AI recognised the business when asked about it by name.
  • 8.3% — share of checks in which the business was mentioned when a customer-style question ("… can you recommend?") was asked.
  • 10 businesses, 1,184 customer-question checks (6 September – 13 October 2026), across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Yandex and Grok.

That is more than a ten-fold gap: the business "exists" for the AI, but is not what it recommends when a customer searches.

How businesses are distributed

Of the 10 businesses with at least 5 customer-question checks:

  • 4 were never mentioned,
  • 5 were mentioned in up to 25% of checks,
  • 1 in the 26–50% range,
  • none above 50%.

The only business in the 26–50% range already runs classic SEO work independently of mytrend. This data does not measure mytrend's effect; it is a single observation that a business already widely present on the web also tends to be mentioned more in AI answers. One example, not a generalisation.

Platforms differ

Mention rates in customer-question answers varied by platform: Perplexity was highest at 17.4%, ChatGPT 9.0%, Gemini 6.2% and Yandex 5.8%. Perplexity's higher rate is consistent with it grounding answers in live web sources, but this is a single sample, not a definitive ranking. Recognition when asked by name was high on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Yandex (83–100%); Grok is left out because its sample (6 name checks) is too small.

Which sites does the AI rely on?

Among answers that cited sources (382 of 1,184), the types of domains that stood out were:

  • service marketplaces and directories (e.g. armut.com, in roughly one in five source-citing answers),
  • LinkedIn and job/career sites (kariyer.net, eleman.net, Indeed),
  • the businesses' own websites and those of local competitors.

Practical takeaway: when giving a local recommendation, the AI does not only look at a business's own site — being mentioned on third-party pages matters. Fixing your own site may not be enough on its own.

What this data does and does not show

  • The sample is small (10 businesses) and mostly Antalya-based; it does not represent Turkey as a whole.
  • Each business uses the key questions it chose; there is no single standard test.
  • AI answers vary from run to run; the numbers are a sample, not a definitive ranking.
  • Some platforms were unavailable for part of the period, so check counts are uneven.

What a business can do

  1. Measure where you stand today: the free Quick Assessment.
  2. Make your site readable to AI: schema.org markup, llms.txt, Q&A pages.
  3. Get mentioned on third-party sources: Google Business Profile, directories and marketplaces in your sector, local news and blog pages.
  4. Repeat the measurement over weeks; watch the trend, not a single result.

For examples from real businesses, see our case studies.