Question for this week: when a Cedar Park homeowner asks for a roofer, who gets named, and are they even in Cedar Park? The questions I asked (Thu Oct 29, 2026: Google about 7:36-7:45 AM CT, ChatGPT about 7:46-7:52 AM CT): 1. "Best roofer in Cedar Park TX" 2. "Who can fix hail damage on my roof in Cedar Park TX" 3. "Roof replacement Cedar Park TX" What came up: - Google map pack (all 3 questions): 3 businesses each time, from a small group of 4 roofers (not counting 1 sponsored ad on question 1). All 3 showed Cedar Park every time. - Google AI Overview, question 1: 5 roofers named. 1 listed in Georgetown; no other city shown. - Google AI Overview, question 2 (hail): 6 roofers named. Only 2 tied to Cedar Park. 3 listed in Austin, 1 in Georgetown. - Google AI Overview, question 3: no AI Overview shown. - ChatGPT (logged out, new chat each time): 5, 4 and 4 roofers (7 different ones in total). All but one listed in Cedar Park. One was described only as "serves Cedar Park". I'm not naming the businesses here, because none of them asked to be torn down. Screenshots below (Google map pack for question 3, Google AI Overview for the hail question, ChatGPT answer for question 1, all taken Oct 29, 2026) have names blurred. What stood out: - The hail question pulled in Austin roofers. The general "best roofer" question stayed mostly local. The specific hail-damage question named more Austin and Georgetown companies than Cedar Park ones. The usual reason: bigger-city businesses tend to have more pages and mentions about specific jobs like hail and insurance claims, so AI has something to quote for that exact question. - The map pack and the AI Overview didn't agree. The map pack (not counting ads) stayed 100% Cedar Park. The map pack leans on Google Business Profiles and distance. AI answers lean more on what websites, reviews and directories say. - ChatGPT and Google named different lists. Only one roofer showed up for all three questions in both Google and ChatGPT. Two roofers ChatGPT named never came up in Google, and one roofer that was in every Google map pack never came up in ChatGPT.

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