The Direct Index
Recommended by assistants · Chicago, US · October 2026

Birthday dinner for eight on Friday. I want to book online.

What ChatGPT and Gemini answered when asked this in Chicago on 2026-10-15, with web search on: the places named, who named them, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
AdalinaGemini with its own siteadalinachicago.com
Cafe Ba-Ba-ReebaGemini with its own sitecafebabareeba.com
Chicago Chop HouseChatGPT with its own sitechicagochophouse.com
Osteria LangheChatGPT with its own siteosterialanghe.com
The DearbornGemini with its own sitethedearborn.com
The Village
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own sitethevillage-chicago.com
Method

How this is read

Each assistant was asked once per question, with web search on, for up to three places and the link to each one's own website. Names are read from the answer and matched against the index; links between a name and the next are that place's. "With its own site" means the assistant linked the place's own website; "through a marketplace" or "a directory" that it linked a listing instead; "by name" that it gave no link. The direct links come from the Direct Index scan of the place's site, not from the assistant.

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