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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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reddit.com

Directory
814 citations 468 answers GGemini 617 OOpenAI 72 PPerplexity 125

Gemini caveat — 617 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

  1. What Are Your Goto Restaurants In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 13 date unknown 13
  2. Favorite Lesserknown Restaurants ↗ PPerplexity 6 date unknown 6
  3. What Are Some Of Yalls Favorite Restaurantsbars ↗ PPerplexity 4 date unknown 4
  4. On A Better Note Where Is The Best Authentic ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  5. Vegan Texmex Restaurants ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  6. Best Places To Go For A Business Lunch In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  7. Where Is The Cheapest But Still Good Sushi In All ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  8. What Is The Best New Restaurant In Dallas ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  9. What Are Some Of The Best Places Where I Can Get ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  10. Best Indian Food Recommendations ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  11. Cutefun Instagram Worthy Restaurants Inaround ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  12. Utrunderrated Restaurants Dfw Area ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  13. What Is The Absolute Best Pizza In Dallas Proper ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  14. Where Can I Get Authentic Sichuan Chinese Food ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  15. Italian Restaurants ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Best affordable / cheap sushi in Dallas? GGemini 18 OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 3 23
  2. What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? GGemini 8 OOpenAI 6 PPerplexity 6 20
  3. Best dim sum in DFW? GGemini 14 OOpenAI 3 PPerplexity 3 20
  4. Best Indian food in Dallas? GGemini 15 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 19
  5. What are the best restaurants in Plano? GGemini 9 PPerplexity 9 18
  6. What are the best restaurants in Arlington? GGemini 8 PPerplexity 8 16
  7. Best Brazilian steakhouse / churrascaria in DFW? GGemini 15 OOpenAI 1 16
  8. Best Sichuan food in DFW? GGemini 12 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 16
  9. Best Korean food in Dallas? GGemini 12 OOpenAI 3 15
  10. What are the best hidden-gem restaurants in Dallas? GGemini 8 OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 3 13
  11. Best restaurants in Allen? GGemini 10 OOpenAI 3 13
  12. Best Korean BBQ in Carrollton and North Dallas? GGemini 7 OOpenAI 3 PPerplexity 3 13
  13. Best ramen in Dallas? GGemini 9 OOpenAI 4 13
  14. Best cheap eats in Fort Worth? GGemini 12 OOpenAI 1 13
  15. Best Peruvian and South American food in Dallas? GGemini 12 12

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.