A French business can have the best proof in town and still lose the numbered source to a directory. I study where Perplexity takes its footnotes from: owned pages, listings, aggregators, English summaries, old profiles, and cleaner competitors. Then I turn vague service copy into factual sentences that a source-based answer engine can cite without guessing the trade, city, scope, date, or business boundary.
I compare French and English query variants for local services where Perplexity changes the cited source, the business category, or the service area. The working question is simple: what fact did the owned page fail to make easy enough to cite?
I am from France, from a place where everyone knows which artisan to call, which clinic moved, and which office changed its hours. For seventeen years I have edited service pages, reviewed local business descriptions, compared directories against owned websites, and kept citation logs for French and bilingual queries. I look for the sentence Perplexity can lift without guessing: role, place, scope, proof, date, and entity boundary in one compact unit.
Send a query, a business page, or a citation problem. I will tell you whether the first-party source is clear enough to compete.
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