When someone asks out loud,is your name the answer?

The records voice assistants answer from. It looks up your Google Business Profile, searches for your Apple Maps and Yelp listings, reads your home page for the details assistants use to confirm a listing, and compares your phone number and name across all of them. You get a score for each assistant and a fix for every problem.

Each one reads a different record. Google's assistants read the Google Business Profile, Siri reads Apple Maps, and Alexa has long leaned on Yelp and other licensed data. Update one and forget the others, and two assistants keep repeating the old hours or the old number. The check shows you which record is out of step.

Not necessarily. Apple does not offer a public lookup, so we search for your Apple Maps page the way a search engine indexes it, and many real listings are not indexed. Treat it as a prompt to sign in to Apple Business Connect and confirm the listing is claimed, complete and matches your Google profile.

No, and nobody can promise that. Distance from the person asking, relevance and reviews all weigh in. What the score tells you is whether the assistants have accurate, consistent information to work with. Without that, you are not in the running at all; with it, you are competing on the things that should decide it.

Each check runs several paid searches on our side, so it is protected from bots: you verify an email once with a six-digit code and every tool on the site stays open for thirty days on that browser. We keep the email so we can follow up once about what the check found. We do not sell it.

After any change to your hours, phone number, address or name, and once a month otherwise. Listings drift: a directory scrapes an old number, a holiday closure never gets entered, someone suggests an edit that sticks. A monthly check catches it before a customer hears it from a speaker.