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The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, said in a recent interview that 2027 is the year of the agents.
Discover why websites will matter less by 2027 and what home service businesses must build to thrive in the AI search era.
Key Takeaways
- Websites will decline in importance as AI-driven search and answers dominate.
- Publishing transparent pricing content is critical for AI trust and customer decision-making.
- AI-powered online booking will streamline customer scheduling directly through conversational platforms.
- Real, specific content derived from actual customer interactions outperforms generic content.
- Adapting to AI search trends now is vital for home service businesses to maintain lead generation.
Summary
- Google CEO Sundar Pichai predicts 2027 as the year of AI agents transforming search behavior.
- Over 58% of Google searches end without clicks, as users get answers directly from AI.
- Traditional websites focused on traffic and conversion rates are becoming less relevant.
- The shift from keyword-based search to conversational AI search changes how customers seek information.
- Businesses must create detailed pricing content to be trusted sources for AI platforms.
- Online scheduling integrated with AI agents will become essential for customer bookings.
- Content should be generated from real customer questions and calls to build authentic, niche authority.
- Google discourages commodity content and favors hyper-specific, real-world content for AI search ranking.
- Phlash Consulting developed an AI agent to convert customer calls into valuable marketing content.
- Home service businesses need to adapt quickly to these changes to stay competitive in the next 3 years.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction: The Year of AI Agents and Search Shift
- 00:30The Biggest Shift in Digital Marketing for Home Services
- 01:08The Traditional Website Traffic and Conversion Model
- 02:17Transition to the AI Search Era
- 03:00From Keyword Search to Conversational AI Search
- 04:52Why Pricing Content is Essential for AI Search
- 10:04The Importance of AI-Enabled Online Scheduling
- 12:07Creating Content from Real Customer Questions
- 15:00How to Build Trust and Rank in the AI Search Era
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At the same time, 58% of Google searches end with no clicks. That means over half the people that are going to Google and searching for things never end up on a website. They're getting their answers from AI. In this video, I'll show you why websites will matter dramatically less over the
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next 3 years, what's replacing them, and what home service businesses should be building right now to stay ahead. I've been doing digital marketing for home service businesses for eight years, and I can
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tell you that this is the biggest shift from an agency perspective, from a business perspective.
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And in this video, we're going to break it all down for you. All right, before we talk about
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why websites are not going to be important, let's talk about where we are right now and
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how it's been for the past 10 years. People went to Google, they searched for something, they ended
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up on your website, and then they converted into a lead. And everything revolved around driving
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traffic to your website. So, we were obsessed over conversion rate optimization. And you get
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100 people to your website, you convert at 10%, so you get 10 leads. You had chat widgets and
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popups and things to convert leads. And these still work right now. Sticky headers on mobile,
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landing pages for Google ads, call to actions, and form submissions. This is where we're at
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right now. And over the next 6 to 12 months, we're shifting to the next phase,
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which is a very, very dramatic shift that a lot of people are not seeing coming, and that is
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phase two, the AI search era. So essentially, before people were searching for keywords.
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They were searching for HVAC repair near me, and they were finding businesses. They were reading
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reviews and then they were going to websites and converting into leads. Exactly what I just showed you. Now people are shifting to conversations. In fact, Google just made the biggest change in
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25 years to their search engine box. If you go to Google right now and you type in something,
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instead of it saying search, it says AI mode. And when you click that button,
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it actually goes to Gemini. It does not go to traditional Google search unless you click actual
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enter on your keyboard. Why is this so important? Because Google is training people on how to use
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conversational AI search. And what's happening is that people are not searching for HVAC repair near me.
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They're realizing that they can actually have conversations with these platforms and ask them
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questions. So, for example, now we see questions like, "My thermostat is on, the fan is running,
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but no cold air is coming out. Why?" And maybe they upload a picture and they're asking questions to
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try and diagnose the problem because they know AI is smart and AI might be able to give them a quick
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fix or explain what's going on so that way they can figure out if they need to call a professional
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or not. People are searching for answers first. This is the AI search era. So your content isn't
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competing for ranking anymore. It's competing to become the source AI trusts. And there are three main
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things that businesses need to do right now when we talk about the AI search era.
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Specifically, we need to build out pricing content. So, people are going to Gemini, ChatGPT,
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uh, Claude, and they're asking questions and then they're saying, "Well, how much does that
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cost to do?" And the reason pricing content is so important is because people ask AI pricing
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questions constantly. And if you don't publish pricing online, AI has nothing to reference.
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And businesses that answer this openly are going to win. So, imagine your business,
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if you do multiple different services, you have a pricing guide for all of them. Now,
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when people hear me say this, they're like, "I don't want my pricing out there. My competitor's
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going to see this and blah blah blah." I'm not saying that you have to have exact pricing like
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your price book uploaded online or something. What I am saying is that you need to build a
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guide as the authority. You need to say, "Okay, well, if you want to get your gutters clean,
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here's what the high mark is. Here's what the low people do and here's how they interact with
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people. And you know, it's 99 bucks, but it's not 99 bucks. It's 600 bucks and it is 600 bucks. And
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here's what makes the price go up, down, sideways. Um, here's the add-on things." And let's say you
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also do gutter installation, right? So, you start building out your pricing guides based
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off of the service that you have. The reason is people are asking AI, "How much do things cost?"
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And they want to have the answer. If you do not have the answer to give them, they're going to
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source someone else when they actually are looking for the information. All right.
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Number two is online scheduling. There's a very popular thing out there called AI agentic booking.
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And if you're not familiar with it, what AI booking is, is you can actually ask an AI
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platform, Gemini, ChatGPT. You can say, "Hey, I want you to schedule a reservation for me at an
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Italian restaurant on Friday at five o'clock." And right now, it can go out to OpenTable and Resy.
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Um, this is in Google Labs. It can go out to OpenTable and Resy, find an Italian restaurant for you
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and actually schedule it for you and come back and say, "Cool, you're all scheduled. Here's the
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recommendations. Here's the pricing. And here you go." Now, I was literally just out in Las Vegas
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and I was talking with the head of product development with Jobber and they said that they
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are building a native booking with Jobber online booking already that plugs as an app directly into Gemini and into ChatGPT. What does this mean? Imagine for home service businesses,
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there's a native online booking tool, whatever CRM that you use that allows people to schedule right
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online, right inside of these AI platforms. This is in the next six to 12 months going to be a very,
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very, very real reality. I literally was just talking to Jobber about this exact thing.
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And then the third thing is content from real customer questions. So we know people ask about
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pricing. We know that they are going to schedule online with AI booking. But more importantly,
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we know the shift from keywords to conversations and content from real customer questions is what
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we need to do. And the problem is, Google just released a white paper on how do you rank for
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AEO, SEO, AI search. They told you exactly what to do. And I made a whole video on it, but the basic
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crux notes is this: Google does not want commodity content. They literally say commodity content is
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going to hurt your brand and they're not going to show commodity content. Commodity content is like
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here's seven ways to repair your home for summer. Very, very neutral fluff things that anyone could
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say. This is called commodity content because you could create this straight from ChatGPT. What they
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do want is very hyper-specific niche real content. And I used to be at a home service business. The
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hardest thing was getting the stories from my technicians, getting the stories from my CSRs,
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and actually getting real stuff. We had to try to come up with it on our own. So,
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what people need to be doing is every phone call your company receives contains future content.
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Document questions, answer them publicly. This is how you train AI to trust you. So,
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for this big shift of calls to content, which is a system that we built, we actually built an AI
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agent that we plug into home service businesses. It listens to the calls. It analyzes them and
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every single call that comes through that's over three minutes that has a valuable conversation
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gets turned into content, social media posts, video hooks, SEO blog posts, and the whole reason is
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that we want the real content to be available to then post. So some of the content that we've seen
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is like instead of saying, um, you know, HVAC repair near me, which was one of the key
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