
trellner.com
September 2, 2026
10 min read
59/100
Summary
Three sites made 215,128 "best software" pages for AI. Perplexity cites them 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. We asked two web-grounded models for the best products in 380 software categories and kept every U...