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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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Editorial
25 citations 25 answers CClaude 2 GGemini 20 PPerplexity 3

Gemini caveat — 20 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. 287 F5288c62 84d8 4b3b Ab35 B822bcaf4d21 ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  2. 287 1bb706d9 E601 4bb8 B460 10cce41d9096 ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  3. 287 B45bfea3 C57c 46bc 911a 7deb8a ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Which DFW restaurants are James Beard nominees or winners? CClaude 1 GGemini 1 PPerplexity 3 5
  2. What are the best restaurants in DFW? GGemini 2 2
  3. Best pizza in Dallas? GGemini 2 2
  4. Best barbecue in Fort Worth? GGemini 2 2
  5. Best Tex-Mex in Fort Worth? CClaude 1 GGemini 1 2
  6. What are the best fine dining restaurants in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  7. Best modern Texas cuisine in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  8. Best Vietnamese food in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  9. Best cocktail bars in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  10. Best chef-driven restaurants in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  11. Best tasting menus in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  12. What is the best overall dining experience in Dallas? GGemini 1 1
  13. Which DFW restaurants are worth a special drive? GGemini 1 1
  14. Best restaurants in The Cedars and near Fair Park? GGemini 1 1
  15. Best restaurants on Magnolia Avenue / Near Southside Fort Worth? 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.

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.