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title: Bordeaux vs Nice: which city's businesses can AI agents use? · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/compare/bordeaux/nice?format=md
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# Bordeaux or Nice: whose businesses can AI agents use?

Bordeaux: 363 business websites scanned, 39% take a booking or an order on their own site, 21% turn an AI crawler away, 33% score A or B. Nice: 377 business websites scanned, 40% take a booking or an order on their own site, 16% turn an AI crawler away, 32% score A or B. Numbers as of 2026-10-15.

| | Bordeaux | Nice |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business websites scanned | 363 of 547 with a site | 377 of 435 with a site |
| Take a booking or an order on their own site | 39% of 327 reachable | **40%** of 342 reachable |
| Turn an AI crawler away at the edge | 21% of 327 reachable | **16%** of 342 reachable |
| Score A or B | **33%** 121 sites | 32% 121 sites |

[Bordeaux](https://directindex.org/city/bordeaux) · [France](https://directindex.org/country/fr)
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A 47 · B 74 · C 96 · D 79 · F 67

[Nice](https://directindex.org/city/nice) · [France](https://directindex.org/country/fr)
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A 32 · B 89 · C 107 · D 78 · F 71

Shares are over the reachable sites of each index, latest scan of each; A or B over all scanned. [Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/compare/bordeaux/nice?format=md) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/api/compare/bordeaux/nice) · [All cities ranked](https://directindex.org/rankings?kind=restaurants).

 Findings

## What the index found in each city

Menu or price list

| | Bordeaux | Nice |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML page | 58% 191 | 52% 178 |
| none | 24% 78 | 38% 129 |
| PDF | 11% 36 | 6% 20 |
| elsewhere | 4% 13 | 2% 8 |
| on the page | 2% 7 | 2% 7 |
| image | 1% 2 | 0% 0 |

Direct booking or ordering

| | Bordeaux | Nice |
| --- | --- | --- |
| none | 40% 131 | 54% 186 |
| own site | 25% 83 | 28% 95 |
| vendor on own site | 14% 45 | 12% 41 |
| marketplace | 11% 36 | 2% 8 |
| third party | 10% 32 | 4% 12 |

Site builder

| | Bordeaux | Nice |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unknown | 45% 146 | 63% 216 |
| WordPress | 46% 149 | 30% 101 |
| Webflow | 3% 11 | 3% 10 |
| Squarespace | 2% 6 | 3% 10 |
| Wix | 2% 8 | 1% 4 |
| Shopify | 1% 2 | 0% 1 |
| Jimdo | 1% 2 | 0% 0 |

Booking and ordering vendors

| | Bordeaux | Nice |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Zenchef](https://directindex.org/vendors/zenchef) | 42 | 39 |
| [Uber Eats](https://directindex.org/vendors/ubereats) | 21 | 4 |
| [Deliveroo](https://directindex.org/vendors/deliveroo) | 18 | 3 |
| [TheFork](https://directindex.org/vendors/thefork) | 10 | 5 |
| [SevenRooms](https://directindex.org/vendors/sevenrooms) | 5 | 10 |
| [CoverManager](https://directindex.org/vendors/covermanager) | 1 | 0 |
| [GloriaFood](https://directindex.org/vendors/gloriafood) | 1 | 0 |

Menu, channel and builder shares are over the reachable sites (327 in Bordeaux, 342 in Nice). Vendor counts are sites whose booking or ordering runs through that vendor, direct or marketplace, from the daily vendor pass.

 Assistants

## Where the assistants send people

Asked, with web search on, about the top-ranked businesses (the website, where to book, where to order) and the way people ask ("best pizza delivered tonight"). The share of answers that pointed to the business's own site or a direct vendor. Measured in the cities on the probe schedule; "not asked" elsewhere.

| Assistant | Bordeaux: about a business | Nice: about a business | Bordeaux: asked the way people ask | Nice: asked the way people ask |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | not asked | not asked | 95% of 38 places | not asked |
| Claude | not asked | not asked | 77% of 30 places | not asked |
| Gemini | not asked | not asked | 88% of 33 places | not asked |

 Month by month

## Bordeaux / Nice, month by month

Each cell reads Bordeaux / Nice. A month is final once it ends; the current month updates hourly. Each city's dated pages: [Bordeaux](https://directindex.org/city/bordeaux), [Nice](https://directindex.org/city/nice).

| Month | Sites scanned | Book or order on their own site | Turn a crawler away | Score A or B |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| October 2026 so far | 422 / 433 | 39% / 40% | 21% / 16% | 121 / 121 |

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