How it chooses
Who ChatGPT names
For questions about local businesses, ChatGPT runs a web search, reads the pages and listings it finds, and names the businesses the evidence supports most clearly. It favors businesses whose services, location and reputation are stated plainly and confirmed by more than one source. If your website is vague, or its search crawler can't read it, ChatGPT relies on what other sites say about you, or leaves you out.