Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
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Three sites have generated 215,128 machine-generated "best software" pages for 380 software categories, with 751 of the 2,055 cited domains not appearing in the top million, according to a report by Perplexity. These sites, including guideflow.com, wifitalents.com, and worldmetrics.org, were all registered between December 2023 and May 2024 and share a common Cloudflare nameserver pair and identical page templates.
Each site has a blog containing six posts, six of which are about the other brands in the set. The three brands also offer custom market research, ready-made reports, and vendor selection services, all related to the generated Best Lists.
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