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Americans are using AI to find local businesses. Most don't trust it yet

Headline from KVIA El Paso

By Damian Rollison for SOCi.ai For years, local search followed a rough sequence, driven in large part by the dominance of search as a channel and Google as its dominant provider. A consumer searches using keywords, evaluates a set of results, chooses one, and converts. That model is breaking down.

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    Americans are using AI to find local businesses. Most don't trust it yet (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    By Damian Rollison for SOCi.ai For years, local search followed a rough sequence, driven in large part by the dominance of search as a channel and Google as its dominant provider. A consumer searches using keywords, evaluates a set of results, chooses one, and converts. That model is breaking down.

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