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Why 1 in 5 locations never appear in AI answers, and who needs to fix it

calendar_today October 13, 2026 person Somya Yesodharan domain birdeye

One in five locations never shows up in an AI answer. In Birdeye’s study of 16,240 location-level ChatGPT scans across 1,762 multi-location brands, 18.6% of locations were invisible. Nearly half of brands had a gap of 50 points or more between their best and worst locations.

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