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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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Directory
200 citations 87 answers CClaude 192 PPerplexity 8

Cited articles

  1. Chungdam Bbq Carrollton ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  2. La Mexicana Y El Gringo Irving ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  3. Search ↗ CClaude 2 date unknown 2
  4. Denton Square Denton ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  5. Little Greek Fresh Grill Dallas 2 ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1
  6. The Mayor S House By Selda Dallas ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  7. Wicked Butcher Dallas 2 ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  8. Yoon Korean Bbq Carrollton 3 ↗ PPerplexity 1 date unknown 1
  9. 3 XDQ54defx2 FtajfmGFA ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  10. Search ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  11. Search ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  12. Search ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  13. Search ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  14. Search ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1
  15. Search ↗ CClaude 1 date unknown 1

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Best Korean BBQ in Carrollton and North Dallas? CClaude 4 PPerplexity 4 8
  2. Best juice bars and non-coffee cafes in Dallas? CClaude 7 7
  3. Best restaurants in Preston Hollow and Preston Center? CClaude 6 6
  4. Best Mexican food in Irving? CClaude 3 PPerplexity 3 6
  5. Best bottomless brunch in Dallas? CClaude 6 6
  6. Best Greek food in Dallas? CClaude 4 PPerplexity 1 5
  7. Best West African / Nigerian food in DFW? CClaude 5 5
  8. What are the best fine dining restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 4 4
  9. Best Mediterranean restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 4 4
  10. Best restaurants in Lake Highlands? CClaude 4 4
  11. Best restaurants on Magnolia Avenue / Near Southside Fort Worth? CClaude 4 4
  12. What are the best restaurants in Irving? CClaude 4 4
  13. Best restaurants in Allen? CClaude 4 4
  14. Best restaurants in The Colony / Grandscape? CClaude 4 4
  15. Best affordable / cheap sushi in Dallas? CClaude 4 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.