01
The numbers
| 2026-07-26 | 2026-10-02 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mentioned — all 9 assistants in both runs | 16.8% | 22.5% |
| Mentioned — western assistants | 20.3% | 31.5% |
| Mentioned — Chinese assistants | 12.3% | 11.4% |
| Own site cited — western assistants | 0% | 20.9% |
22 buyer questions without the brand name, each asked twice per assistant. Baseline: 388 of 396 answers returned.
Per assistant, and what to discount
The steadiest of the four: five runs read 16.8, 20.9, 19.9, 21.8, 22.5. Citation leans on Grok (56.8%); ChatGPT and Claude still cite the site 0 times. The August run lost Doubao to timeouts.
| Assistant | 2026-07-26 | 2026-10-02 |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 4.5% | 18.6% |
| Perplexity | 11.4% | 27.3% |
| Claude | 6.8% | 9.1% |
| Gemini | 47.7% | 40.9% |
| Grok | 31% | 61.4% |
| 豆包 Doubao | 4.5% | 0% |
| 通义千问 Qwen | 0% | 2.3% |
| DeepSeek | 11.6% | 6.8% |
| Kimi | 33.3% | 36.4% |
Rates are the plain average of per-assistant rates over assistants measured in both runs; assistants added later are left out on both sides. Citation counts western assistants only — the Chinese APIs return no source list.
02
What we did
- Bilingual site with Restaurant, Menu and FAQPage structured data; 15 AI crawlers allowed.
- Google Business Profile claimed and closed into a loop: GBP website field → site, site sameAs → GBP.
- sameAs to the delivery platforms and directories, including the Chinese 大温点评 listing.
- IndexNow, Bing sitemap, canonical tags and a www → apex 301.
03
Still weak
The Chinese assistants are flat (12.3% → 11.4%) and Doubao names the shop 0 times — for a shop whose customers mostly speak Chinese.