What the evidence supports
Google says local results are primarily based on relevance, distance, and prominence, and that Business Profile information can come from the owner, the official website, licensed third parties, users, and Google’s own interactions. That makes an accurate, consistent business record a practical control—not a guarantee of rank.
For AI-assisted search, Google, OpenAI, and Perplexity document indexability or crawler controls. They do not publish a universal recipe that guarantees a citation or recommendation. BizFacts treats visibility claims as testable observations and records the product, date, location context, prompt, output, and citations.