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

by Trellner Research trellner.com published 2026-09-029 min read

Across 380 software categories, 59.8% of the sources behind grounded AI recommendations sit outside the 100,000 most-visited websites, and several of the most-cited are sites built to be read by models rather than by people.

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