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The press the machines actually read

Every time an AI answer engine recommends a Dallas restaurant, it cites its sources. We keep the receipts. This is the ranked list of publications and individual articles the engines pulled from — which is, in practice, the list of places worth getting written about.

Citations
7824
Publications
1209
Editorial
41
Answers cited
1032
Median age of cited content not yet known
CClaude — PPerplexity — OOpenAI —

Weighted by citation, not by URL — a five-year-old round-up cited three hundred times shapes three hundred answers. Dated for 0% of 3079 article citations; the rest publish no date we can read, and are left out rather than guessed at.

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Editorial
40 citations 36 answers CClaude 37 PPerplexity 3

Cited articles

  1. Best Peruvian Restaurant In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  2. Best Fine Dining In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  3. Best Romantic Restaurant In Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  4. Best Authentic Mexican Food In Irving Tx ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  5. Best Breakfast In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  6. Best Breakfast Restaurants In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  7. Best Brunch In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  8. Best Burgers In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  9. Best Cajun Restaurants In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  10. Best Chinese Restaurant In Dallas Tx ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  11. Best Chinese Restaurant In Richardson Tx ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  12. Best Dining Experience In Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. Best Dinner In Deep Ellum ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  14. Best Food In Allen Tx ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. Best Food In Irving Texas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

What a diner was asking when an engine reached for this source.

  1. Best Peruvian and South American food in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  2. Best breakfast spots in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  3. Best wine bars in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  4. Best Mexican food in Irving? CClaude 2 2
  5. Best restaurants for a birthday dinner in Dallas? CClaude 2 2
  6. Best restaurants in Deep Ellum? CClaude 1 1
  7. Best restaurants in Uptown Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  8. Where should I eat in Oak Lawn? CClaude 1 1
  9. Best restaurants in Knox-Henderson? CClaude 1 1
  10. Where should I eat on Lower Greenville? CClaude 1 1
  11. Best restaurants in downtown Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  12. Where should I eat in Oak Cliff? CClaude 1 1
  13. What are the best fine dining restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  14. Best French restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  15. Best Mediterranean restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 1

Venues named alongside it

Rooms the engines named in the same answers that cited this source. Co-occurrence, not proof of cause — but it is the shape of the influence.

Method

We ask the AI answer engines the questions diners actually ask, on a schedule, and store every answer with its citations. The counts above are citation rows — one per source URL an engine attached to an answer — scoped to the most recent complete observation run.

"Editorial" versus "directory" is our judgement call, applied by domain and tuned as the corpus grows. Editorial means a publication with an editor: a place a restaurant can be pitched. Directory means an aggregator, listing site, OTA, or user-generated platform — visible, but not pitchable.

Publication dates and bylines come from each cited page's own structured data — the publisher's JSON-LD, then its OpenGraph tags. We fetch politely, once per second, identify ourselves, and stop asking any site that declines. Where a page declares no date we say so; we never estimate one. The exception is Reddit, which refuses crawlers but encodes a post's position in its own submission counter in the URL — those dates are arithmetic, accurate to roughly a day, and marked approximate wherever they appear.