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TabsTX · perception
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
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.
Hidden Gems
Directoryhttps://www.visitdallas.com/blog/hidden-gems/
Questions these citations answered
What a diner was asking when an engine reached for this source.
- What are the most underrated restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 PPerplexity 3 4
- Where should I take out-of-town guests to eat in Dallas? CClaude 1 1
- What are the best hidden-gem restaurants in Dallas? CClaude 1 1
- Which Dallas restaurants do locals actually love? 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.
- Pecan Lodge 4
- Fond 3
- Le PasSage 3
- Slow Bone 3
- Sushi Robata 3
- The Local 3
- Al Biernat's 2
- Malai Kitchen 2
- Dakota's 1
- Hudson House 1
- Mister Charles 1
- Nick & Sam's Steak & Fish House 1
- Pillar 1
- Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek 1
- Salum 1
- Sixty Vines 1
- Sushi Bar Dallas 1
- The Heritage Table 1
- The Rustic 1
- Urban Taco 1
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.