Three sites built 215,128 'best software' pages that Perplexity cites
jakobgreenfeld · hn · 2026-09-02
An investigation finds three websites manufactured over 215,000 'best software' pages that Perplexity and other AI answer engines frequently cite as sources, showing how AI recommendations can be gamed at scale through SEO-style source manufacturing.
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