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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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tripadvisor.com

Directory
261 citations 198 answers CClaude 84 OOpenAI 27 PPerplexity 150

Cited articles

  1. Restaurants G55711 Dallas Texas ↗ PPerplexity 21 date unknown 21
  2. Restaurants G55711 Zfp3 Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 4 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 7
  3. Restaurants G30183 Arlington Texas ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 5
  4. Restaurants G55711 Zfp10954 Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 2 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 5
  5. Restaurants G30141 Addison Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  6. Restaurants G30155 Allen Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  7. Restaurants G36470 Oak Lawn Illinois ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  8. Restaurants G44211 Carrollton Missouri ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  9. Restaurants G55588 Carrollton Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  10. Restaurants G55711 C31 Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  11. Restaurants G55711 C33 Dallas Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  12. Restaurants G55711 Zfd11722 Dallas Texas Ramen ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  13. Restaurants G56032 Irving Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  14. Restaurants G56463 Plano Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4
  15. Restaurants G56463 C38 Plano Texas ↗ CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 date unknown 4

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Best restaurants near The Star in Frisco? CClaude 3 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 12 16
  2. What are the best restaurants in Frisco? PPerplexity 12 12
  3. Where should I eat in Oak Lawn? CClaude 2 PPerplexity 7 9
  4. Best restaurants in Carrollton? CClaude 3 PPerplexity 6 9
  5. What are the best restaurants in Plano? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 7 8
  6. What are the best restaurants in Arlington? CClaude 2 PPerplexity 6 8
  7. Best Brazilian steakhouse / churrascaria in DFW? OOpenAI 2 PPerplexity 6 8
  8. Best restaurants in Addison (Restaurant Row)? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 6 7
  9. Best pizza in Dallas? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 4 5
  10. Best restaurants on Magnolia Avenue / Near Southside Fort Worth? PPerplexity 5 5
  11. What are the best restaurants in Irving? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  12. Best restaurants in Allen? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  13. Best sushi in Plano? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 4 5
  14. Best Chinese food in Richardson? CClaude 1 OOpenAI 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  15. Where should I eat in Bishop Arts? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 4

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.