{
  "id": 667828,
  "title": "AI Search for Local Businesses: How to Compete Beyond Google Rankings",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/ai-search-for-local-businesses-how-to-compete-beyond-google-rankings",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T13:35:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/softwin/ai-search-for-local-businesses-how-to-compete-beyond-google-rankings-1a18"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "If you build or maintain websites for local businesses, you've probably already noticed organic click-through rates dropping even as rankings hold steady. The reason: AI Overviews now appear in roughly 68% of local searches (versus ~39% for the classic three-pack local results), and for \"near me\" or pricing-style queries, AI-generated answers show up 80–97% of the time . ChatGPT itself is…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}