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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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Directory
30 citations 28 answers CClaude 4 PPerplexity 26

Cited articles

  1. 19 Of The Most Exciting Restaurants Coming To Dallas Fort Worth In 2026to Kick O ↗ PPerplexity 6 date unknown 6
  2. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
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  5. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  6. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  7. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  8. As The James Beard Foundation Slims Its List Of Chefs Eligible For A Coveted Cul ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1
  9. Posts ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  10. Posts ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  11. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1
  12. Posts ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1
  14. Posts ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. Posts ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Where should I eat in Bishop Arts? PPerplexity 4 4
  2. Where should I eat in Oak Cliff? PPerplexity 3 3
  3. Best barbecue in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  4. What are the best hidden-gem restaurants in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  5. What are the best new restaurant openings in DFW this year? PPerplexity 3 3
  6. Most anticipated new restaurant openings in DFW? PPerplexity 3 3
  7. Where should I eat in Oak Lawn? PPerplexity 2 2
  8. Best sushi in Dallas? PPerplexity 2 2
  9. Best restaurants in the Fort Worth Stockyards? CClaude 2 2
  10. What are the best restaurants in DFW? PPerplexity 1 1
  11. Which DFW restaurants are worth a special drive? PPerplexity 1 1
  12. Best omakase in Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  13. Best sushi in Plano? CClaude 1 1
  14. Which DFW restaurants are James Beard nominees or winners? PPerplexity 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.