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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
106 citations 89 answers GGemini 83 PPerplexity 23

Gemini caveat — 83 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. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 6 date unknown 6
  2. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  3. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  4. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  5. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  6. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 3 date unknown 3
  7. Watch ↗ PPerplexity 2 date unknown 2

Questions these citations answered

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

  1. Best barbecue in Dallas? GGemini 8 PPerplexity 6 14
  2. Best restaurants in the Fort Worth Stockyards? GGemini 7 7
  3. What are the best restaurants in DFW? GGemini 2 PPerplexity 3 5
  4. Which DFW restaurants are worth a special drive? GGemini 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  5. Best Korean food in Dallas? GGemini 4 4
  6. Best izakaya / Japanese pub in Dallas? GGemini 1 PPerplexity 3 4
  7. What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  8. Best sushi in Dallas? GGemini 3 3
  9. Best burgers in Dallas? GGemini 3 3
  10. Best bakeries and pastry shops in Dallas? GGemini 3 3
  11. Best coffee shops in Dallas? PPerplexity 3 3
  12. Best restaurants in Trinity Groves? GGemini 3 3
  13. What are the best restaurants in Plano? GGemini 1 PPerplexity 2 3
  14. Best restaurants in Grand Prairie? GGemini 3 3
  15. Best barbecue in Arlington? GGemini 3 3

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.