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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
24 citations 16 answers CClaude 1 PPerplexity 23

Cited articles

  1. Karliedoesdallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  2. Rh Rooftop Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  3. C9gGCeWPOce ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  4. DFENnJosAHs ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  5. DMJE0BNSTek ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  6. DZh4R8XOrQF ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  7. DXt6xh4Dknr ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  8. DO7EGp6DcD3 ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2
  9. Best Korean Bbq Carrollton ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  10. DOkKjdMjV21 ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. What are the most Instagrammable restaurants in Dallas right now? PPerplexity 9 9
  2. Best dim sum in DFW? PPerplexity 4 4
  3. Where can I get good food late at night in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  4. Best romantic restaurants in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  5. Best patio brunch in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  6. Best Korean BBQ in Carrollton and North Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  7. Best poke in Dallas? PPerplexity 1 1

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.