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Customers Have Left the Search Bar
How to Get ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI to Recommend Your Small Business: The DIY Guide to GEO, AEO, and AI Search
Customers Have Left the Search Bar is Eugene Kim's hands-on playbook for getting AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI to find, trust, and recommend a local small business. It explains SEO, AEO, and GEO in plain language and requires no coding and no agency.
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When customers stop searching and start asking, only the businesses AI can read get recommended. Here's how to be one of them.
About the book
Right now, someone in your neighborhood is asking AI, “Where's the best place around here?” Is your business in the answer?
Customers used to type a keyword into a search bar, scroll past ten links, and wade through ads and sponsored reviews. Now many skip all that. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google's AI, and they get one short answer with two or three names in it. If your business isn't one of those names, then to that customer, it doesn't exist, no matter how good your food, your service, or your prices are.
Customers Have Left the Search Bar is a hands-on playbook for getting AI to find, trust, and recommend your business. No coding. No expensive agency.
The examples come from South Korea, one of the most wired markets on earth, and the principles carry straight over to Google Business Profile and Google Maps.
Who it's for
Owners of restaurants, salons, clinics, academies, gyms, contractors, and every other small business that lives on local customers, and the marketers who serve them.
Key takeaways
- Photos and image-only menus are invisible to AI. The book shows how to turn them into text AI can read.
- SEO, AEO, and GEO work together, and an owner can launch all three without technical help.
- Where to place information about a business so that AI finds it and trusts it.
- Ten strategies for being cited more often and cited first, plus copy-and-paste FAQ formulas, review guides, and a master prompt template.
- How to ask AI what it thinks of your brand, and how to change the answer. The appendix adds 100 Killer Moves you can act on today.
Formats and details
Paperback
- ISBN
- 979-11-23021-27-0
- Pages
- 224
- Trim
- 6 × 9 in
- US price
- $19.99
- Publication date
Kindle ebook
- ISBN
- None (Amazon assigns an ASIN)
- US price
- $9.99
Edition
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Doseodam
- Translated from
- 《고객은 검색창을 떠났다》 (Doseodam, 2026)
- Korean ISBN
- 979-11-220402-0-3
Frequently asked questions
What is Customers Have Left the Search Bar about?
Customers Have Left the Search Bar is Eugene Kim's hands-on playbook for getting AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google's AI to find, trust, and recommend a local small business. It explains SEO, AEO, and GEO in plain language and requires no coding and no agency.
Who wrote Customers Have Left the Search Bar?
Customers Have Left the Search Bar was written by Eugene Kim (김유진), Korean restaurant business consultant and founder of KYJ Academy. His books have sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, and more than 4,800 founders and owners have trained at KYJ Academy.
Who is Customers Have Left the Search Bar for?
Owners of restaurants, salons, clinics, academies, gyms, contractors, and every other small business that lives on local customers, and the marketers who serve them.
Do the Korean examples apply outside Korea?
The examples come from South Korea, one of the most wired markets on earth, and the principles carry straight over to Google Business Profile and Google Maps.
Is this book a translation?
Yes. Customers Have Left the Search Bar is the English edition of 《고객은 검색창을 떠났다》 (Doseodam, 2026). The Korean edition's ISBN is 979-11-220402-0-3. The English edition is published by Doseodam.
What formats are available, and what do they cost?
Customers Have Left the Search Bar is available as a Kindle ebook (US $9.99) and as a 224-page paperback (US $19.99, ISBN 979-11-23021-27-0). The paperback publication date is October 31, 2026.
