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

Perplexity frequently cites low-traffic, machine-generated websites for software recommendations, with 59.8% of sources ranking outside the top 100,000 domains. Three sites created after December 2023 published 215,128 pages specifically to influence model retrieval. Additionally, vendor marketing blogs like guideflow.com appear as primary evidence for software categories they do not actually serve.