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Asked which software to buy, an AI assistant cited a demo vendor's blog more often than Gartner

Independent researchers put 380 software categories to Perplexity's two grounded models and kept all 7,534 citations. Nearly 60 percent point outside the 100,000 most-visited sites, Wikipedia was cited three times, and three sites under apparently common control have published 215,128 generated buying guides. Two of them title their homepage a grounding page.

Ahmad J · Sep 3, 2026 · 8 min read

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Why Future-Proofing a Computer Is Mostly a Myth

You cannot buy your way out of the future. What keeps a computer useful is not a bigger spec today but headroom in the parts you cannot upgrade, a machine that stays supported, and a workload that does not change much.

Ahmad J · Aug 31, 2026 · 3 min read