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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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opentable.com

Directory
202 citations 146 answers CClaude 84 OOpenAI 36 PPerplexity 82

Cited articles

  1. Dallas Restaurants PPerplexity 11 date unknown 11
  2. Best Restaurants Dallas Reservations Takeout CClaude 1 PPerplexity 6 date unknown 7
  3. Best Dallas Restaurants OOpenAI 4 date unknown 4
  4. Best Dallas Special Occasion Restaurants CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  5. Restaurants That Are Worth The Drive Oak Lawn Il CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  6. Restaurants Near Denton County Courthouse On The Square CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  7. Deep Ellum Restaurants CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  8. Oak Cliff Restaurants CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  9. Best Cozy Restaurants Dallas Fort Worth Lake Highlands PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  10. Best Fine Dining Restaurants Dallas Fort Worth Dallas Downtown PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  11. Best Lunch Restaurants Knox Henderson Dallas Tx PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  12. Restaurants That Are Worth The Drive Irving Tx PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  13. Restaurants That Are Worth The Drive Victory Park Tx PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  14. Restaurants Near Me Knox Henderson Tx PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  15. Restaurants Near Me Lakewood Nj PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Where should I eat in Oak Lawn? CClaude 4 PPerplexity 6 10
  2. What are the best restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 6 8
  3. Best restaurants in Knox-Henderson? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 6 8
  4. Where should I go for a special occasion dinner in Dallas? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 5 7
  5. Best restaurants in Southlake Town Square? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 3 PPerplexity 3 7
  6. Best restaurants in Lakewood and the M-Streets? PPerplexity 6 6
  7. Best restaurants in Lake Highlands? CClaude 2 PPerplexity 4 6
  8. Best restaurants near Love Field and Bluffview? CClaude 3 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 2 6
  9. What are the best restaurants in Irving? CClaude 2 PPerplexity 4 6
  10. Where should I eat in Oak Cliff? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 4 5
  11. What are the best fine dining restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 4 5
  12. Best restaurants in Victory Park? CClaude 2 PPerplexity 3 5
  13. Best waterfront and lakeside dining in DFW? CClaude 3 OOpenAI 2 5
  14. Best restaurants for a business lunch in Dallas? CClaude 2 OOpenAI 2 4
  15. Best restaurants near Highland Park and the Park Cities? CClaude 3 OOpenAI 1 4

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.