Everett, WA — water damage · measured October 18, 2026

How this was measured: seven questions a homeowner asks mid-flood — none of them naming a company — put to four AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode): 28 answers. Google AI Overview returned no answer on any question and is excluded.

Who the answers named, of 28:

• SERVPRO — named in 20 of 28 answers (71%)
• PuroClean — 11
• Roto-Rooter — 9
• Green State Restoration — 8
• PureDry Restoration — 8 (named in 29% of answers; cited in 5, 18%)
• Waterline Restoration — 7
• Bio Clean — 5
• Northwest Restoration — 5
• ServiceMaster by SRS — 2 (named in 7%; cited in 3, 11%)

One answer is worth a second look: on a Gemini answer, PureDry’s own Everett page appeared in the source list — while the answer itself named three other companies. Cited is not the same as named.

Snapshot, not a census: one sample, taken October 18, 2026. Rates move as the engines’ indexes change. A citation is a shortlist, not a job.

Edmonds / Seattle, WA — water damage · measured October 18, 2026

How this was measured: seven questions a homeowner asks mid-flood — none of them naming a company — put to four AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode): 27 answers, every one naming at least one company. Google AI Overview returned no answer on any question and is excluded; one Gemini answer also failed to return.

Who the answers named, of 27:

• SERVPRO — named in 19 of 27 answers (70%)
• American Water Damage Restoration — 7 (named in 26% of answers; its website cited in 2, 7%)
• PureDry Restoration — 6
• Robinson Restore — 6
• Roto-Rooter — 6
• PuroClean — 4
• 1-800 WATER DAMAGE — 1 (named in 4%; its website cited in 0)

Asked about American Water Damage Restoration by name, all four engines named it — 4 of 4 — but not one cited its website (0 of 4). Gemini never named it in any of its six answers, including both questions about Edmonds, its home city.

Snapshot, not a census: one sample, taken October 18, 2026. Rates move as the engines’ indexes change. A citation is a shortlist, not a job.

Tacoma / Pierce County, WA — water damage · measured October 18, 2026

How this was measured: seven questions a homeowner asks mid-flood — none of them naming a company — put to four AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode): 28 answers, 27 of them naming at least one company (one Gemini reply came back as a stub). Google AI Overview returned no answer on any question and is excluded.

Who the answers named, of 27 answers that named a company:

• SERVPRO — named in 16 of 27 answers (59%); servpro.com cited in 14 (52%)
• American Standard Restoration — 11
• Eco Water Restoration — 11 (named in 41% of answers; eco-wr.com cited in 3, 11%)
• Paul Davis — 8
• ServiceMaster — 7
• Roto-Rooter — 7

Asked about Eco Water Restoration by name, all four engines named it — 4 of 4 — and three cited eco-wr.com. On Gemini, Eco appeared in only 1 of 7 answers.

Snapshot, not a census: one sample, taken October 18, 2026. Rates move as the engines’ indexes change. A citation is a shortlist, not a job.

The Claude landscape — this site · measured October 18, 2026

Bing AI Performance (trailing 30 days; export pulled October 18, 2026): tygartmedia.com earned 1,501,064 citations across 934 cited pages. One page — /claude-ai-pricing/ — accounts for 683,645 of them: 45.5% of every citation the site earned in the window.

Microsoft Clarity (same window, its own instrument): 205,349 total citations, with the same pricing page counting 62,970.

Two instruments, reported side by side on purpose — they count differently, and we never blend them.

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