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Answer Share · HVAC contractors

Bakersfield, CA

Share of responses, across 4 AI models and 4 question types, in which each company is named when a user asks for advice on hvac contractors services in this market (64 responses measured).
Market concentration
71.9%
Concentration — the share of responses naming one of the top 3 companies shown below.
Answer Share by company
Company Share of responses Answer Share Citation Share
Xceptional Heating & Air
60.9% 0.4%
South Valley AC & Heating
45.3% 0.3%
Arista Air Conditioning & Heating:
37.5% n/d
Horne Heating and Air
21.9% n/d
Bellaire Air Conditioning
14.1% n/d
Can Do Crew Plumbing, Heating & AC
12.5% 0.3%
LC Heating & Air
9.4% n/d
Trane Comfort Specialist
9.4% n/d
Holders AC & Heating
9.4% 0.7%
Andy's Statewide Heating and Air Conditioning
7.8% n/d
Hawley AC & Heating
7.8% 0.1%
C-20
6.3% n/d
How we collected the data and how to read it

How we collected this data

Every week, the same frozen set of 4 question phrasings is sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and Perplexity — through each provider’s official API, with active web search, never through a consumer chat interface.

Same market, same questions, repeated on a fixed schedule — not a single sample. No AI model is paid or influenced; this page reports what each one already says.

How to read the numbers

Answer Share — the share of measured responses that name a given company. 55.6% means the company appeared in 55.6% of the responses collected for this market.

Market concentration — the share of responses naming at least one of the top 3 companies: how fragmented or concentrated the answers are for this market.

Citation Share — the share of citations linking directly to a company’s own website, among companies whose domain we’ve matched. Shown as n/d where we haven’t matched a domain, or 0% where the domain is known but never cited directly — AI models often cite a review aggregator instead of the company’s own site.

The date at the top of this page is when this market was last measured. Numbers refresh weekly.

Methodology: 4 AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Perplexity), 4 question phrasings per measurement, data collected via official APIs with active web search. No payment influences this ranking. Read the full methodology →