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TabsTX · perception
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
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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OtherGemini caveat — 29 of these citations come back as opaque Google redirect links with no readable destination. For those, we know the publication but not the article, so they are counted here and left out of the article list rather than shown as dead links.
Cited articles
- A Guide To Irving Downtown Eats ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
- A Guide To Water Street In Irving ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
- New Openings Renovations And Culinary Debuts Summerfall 2025 ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
- Irvings Best Tex Mex Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
- San Diego Tacos ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
- Vila Brazil ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
- Las Colinas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
- Mexican ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
- Mexican ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
- Heritage District ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
Questions these citations answered
What a diner was asking when an engine reached for this source.
- Best restaurants in Las Colinas? GGemini 9 OOpenAI 3 12
- Best Mexican food in Irving? CClaude 1 GGemini 6 OOpenAI 3 10
- What are the best restaurants in Irving? GGemini 4 OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 3 9
- Best Peruvian and South American food in Dallas? GGemini 5 5
- What are the best new restaurant openings in DFW this year? GGemini 2 2
- Best Brazilian steakhouse / churrascaria in DFW? OOpenAI 1 1
- Best izakaya / Japanese pub in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
- Best West African / Nigerian food in DFW? GGemini 1 1
- Best hole-in-the-wall restaurants in DFW? GGemini 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.
- The Ranch at las Colinas 7
- Pacific Table 6
- Big State Fountain Grill 4
- Cork & Pig Tavern 4
- Cielito Mexican Flavors LLC 3
- India 101 3
- Argentina Bakery 2
- Maria's Mexican Kitchen 2
- Taqueria Moctezuma 2
- Thirsty Lion Gastropub 2
- Arturo's Mexican Restaurant 1
- Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 1
- Benihana 1
- Corrientes 348 1
- Delucca Gaucho Pizza & Wine 1
- Desi District 1
- Fitos Tacos de Trompo 1
- Gipsy Lime Taco Lounge 1
- Hard Eight BBQ 1
- Jimmy's Food Store 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.