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Why Perplexity AI Is Becoming the New Google for Local Business Search — And What Middle Tennessee Business Owners Need to Know

Steve Cory

Published on: 26/04/2026

Most Middle Tennessee business owners have heard of ChatGPT. But Perplexity AI is quietly pulling significant search traffic away from Google right now — and almost no local business in this market is optimized for it. Here's what it is, how it evaluates your business, and the exact test to run today.

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