The Direct Index
Recommended by assistants · Oxford, GB · November 2026

A traditional local restaurant that tourists don't know. Book me a table for Saturday.

What ChatGPT and Gemini answered when asked this in Oxford on 2026-11-06, with web search on. Below are the places named, who named each one, and the direct link where the place has one.

PlaceNamed byDirect link
The Chester Arms
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own site
Gemini with its own site
chesterarmsoxford.co.uk
The Isis River Farmhouse
not in the index
Gemini with its own sitetheisisfarmhouse.co.uk
The Magdalen Arms
not in the index
Gemini with its own sitemagdalenarms.co.uk
The Old Bookbinders Ale House
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own siteoldbookbinders.co.uk
The Perch
not in the index
ChatGPT with its own sitethe-perch.co.uk
Method

How this is read

Each assistant was asked each question once, 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. Any link between one name and the next belongs to that place. "With its own site" means the assistant linked the place's own website. "Through a marketplace" or "a directory" means it linked a listing instead, and "by name" means it gave no link. The direct links come from the Direct Index's own scan of the place's site. The assistant didn't supply them.

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