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Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

A study released Sept. 2, 2026 found that three sites generated 215,128 machine-generated 'best software' pages across 380 categories to ground AI recommendations, yielding 7,534 citations across 2,055 domains. Of these citations, 59.8% point to domains ranked worse than #100,000 on the Tranco top-1M and 23.4% to domains not in the top million, with many unranked domains being newer. The sites—worldmetrics.org, gitnux.org, and wifitalents.com—share Cloudflare hosting and a common page template with 'Facts & Grounding Page' titles, producing the bulk of the grounding content.

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