Small Businesses Can't Ignore AI Search. Here's How to Win.
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Small Businesses Can't Ignore AI Search. Here's How to Win. Google's monopoly on search is over. ChatGPT has 200M weekly users. Claude is gaining ground. Gemini is baked into Android. Your customers are asking AI tools for answers instead of clicking blue links. If your business doesn't show up in those answers, you don't exist to them. This is the AI era of search. It's called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). And the brands winning right now are the ones building visibility into AI systems before their competitors wake up to the opportunity. The old SEO playbook doesn't work here.