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02 Sep 2026, 9:59 PM	Hacker News	8.0	Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them A Trellner Research report found that 59.8% of citations behind Perplexity's grounded software recommendations point to domains outside the top 100,000 most-visited websites, and 23.4% to domains not even in the top 1 million. Three sites—none existing before December 2023—published 215,128 machine-generated 'best <category>' pages, with two even labeling their homepage HTML title 'Facts & Grounding Page,' explicitly designed to be read by retrieval models rather than humans. Why: If you ship AI agents that ground recommendations in web search, assume the retrieval layer is already being gamed at scale—cheap content farms now target model citations directly. SaaS founders should not assume AI-powered recommendation engines surface quality; they surface whatever is structured for retrieval, meaning SEO-for-AI is already a real attack surface that can displace your product in AI answers. ai-search grounding seo-for-ai perplexity retrieval-quality content-farms

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02 Sep 2026, 9:59 PM

Hacker News

8.0

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

A Trellner Research report found that 59.8% of citations behind Perplexity's grounded software recommendations point to domains outside the top 100,000 most-visited websites, and 23.4% to domains not even in the top 1 million. Three sites—none existing before December 2023—published 215,128 machine-generated 'best <category>' pages, with two even labeling their homepage HTML title 'Facts & Grounding Page,' explicitly designed to be read by retrieval models rather than humans.

Why: If you ship AI agents that ground recommendations in web search, assume the retrieval layer is already being gamed at scale—cheap content farms now target model citations directly. SaaS founders should not assume AI-powered recommendation engines surface quality; they surface whatever is structured for retrieval, meaning SEO-for-AI is already a real attack surface that can displace your product in AI answers.