The Direct Index
Recommended by assistants · Manchester, GB · October 2026

A cheap lunch menu near the centre.

What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answered when asked this in Manchester on 2026-10-17, with web search on: the places named, who named them, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
Albert’s ShedChatGPT with its own sitealberts-restaurants.com · book direct
Bab NQ
not in the index
Claude with its own sitebabnq.co.uk
Eat ItalianChatGPT with its own siteeatitalian.co
Hello OrientalClaude with its own sitehello-oriental.co.uk
Lunch Express dealGemini with its own sitebundobust.com
On The HushChatGPT with its own siteonthehush.co.uk
Rudy’s Pizza NapoletanaGemini with its own siterudyspizza.co.uk
The Blues KitchenClaude with its own sitetheblueskitchen.com
This & ThatGemini with its own sitethisandthatcafe.co.uk
BundobustGemini by nameno link given
The Deal
not in the index
Gemini by nameno link given
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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