The Direct Index
Recommended by assistants · Essen, DE · October 2026

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

What ChatGPT and Gemini answered when asked this in Essen on 2026-10-16, with web search on: the places named, who named them, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
Casino ZollvereinGemini with its own sitecasino-zollverein.de
KiepenkerlChatGPT with its own sitekiepenkerl-zu-essen.de
Mongo’s Restaurant EssenGemini with its own sitemongos.de
Müllers auf der RüGemini with its own sitenelson-mueller.de
Restaurant TeatroChatGPT with its own siteteatro-esel.de
Ristorante AcquarioChatGPT with its own siteacquario.de · book direct
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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