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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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theinfatuation.com

Editorial
63 citations 55 answers CClaude 22 OOpenAI 20 PPerplexity 21

Cited articles

  1. Dallas Restaurants ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 12 date unknown 13
  2. Best Special Occasion Restaurants Dallas ↗ CClaude 3 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 6
  3. Date Night ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  4. Best Restaurants Plano Richardson ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  5. Best Date Night Restaurants Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  6. Best Restaurants Downtown Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  7. Best Steakhouses Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  8. Best Sushi Dallas ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  9. Dallas Restaurants ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  10. Tatsu ↗ OOpenAI 2 date unknown 2
  11. Best Bbq Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  12. Best Date Night Restaurants Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. Best Mexican Restaurants Dallas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1
  14. Best Pizza Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. Best Restaurants At T Stadium Arlington Texas ↗ OOpenAI 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Where should I go for a special occasion dinner in Dallas? CClaude 6 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 10
  2. Where should I take out-of-town guests to eat in Dallas? OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 3 5
  3. Best date night restaurants in Dallas? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  4. Which Dallas restaurants do locals actually love? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  5. What are the best restaurants in Plano? OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  6. Where should I eat in Dallas tonight? PPerplexity 3 3
  7. Best restaurants in downtown Dallas? CClaude 2 OOpenAI 1 3
  8. Which DFW restaurants are worth a special drive? PPerplexity 3 3
  9. Where should I eat in Bishop Arts? CClaude 2 2
  10. Best classic steakhouse in Dallas? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 2
  11. Best sushi in Dallas? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 2
  12. Best omakase in Dallas? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 2
  13. Best modern steakhouse in Dallas? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 2
  14. Best restaurants in Uptown Dallas? CClaude 1 1
  15. Where should I eat on Lower Greenville? CClaude 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.