# Which Sources AI Cites About Hong Kong Clinics and Law Firms

**Source:** https://simplyai.work/learn/which-sources-ai-cites-hong-kong/
**Publisher:** SimplyAI · **Language:** en · **Published:** 2026-08-22 · **Licence:** CC BY 4.0

> **TL;DR** — We asked six AI assistants 30 buyer-intent questions about Hong Kong aesthetic
> clinics and law firms, in English and Traditional Chinese, and recorded every domain they cited.
> The English and Chinese top-20 source lists share only 3 domains out of 20; the aesthetics and
> legal top-20 lists share none at all; and directories and magazines take a large share of the
> citations that decide who gets recommended.

## How this was measured

Thirty discovery and comparison questions — no business name in the prompt, so every source cited
is one the assistant chose on its own — put to Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Qwen, ChatGPT and
Claude, in English and Traditional Chinese, with web grounding enabled. 360 calls; 346 returned a
usable grounded answer, all carrying citations. A domain is counted once per answer that cites it
at least once. The `www.` prefix is stripped.

Caveats: provider APIs return answers close to but not identical with the consumer apps; and
ChatGPT and Claude are geofenced out of Hong Kong, so their share represents what an overseas or
inbound prospect sees, not a local one.

## English and Chinese answers barely share a source

The top 20 domains cited in English answers and the top 20 in Traditional Chinese **overlap on
three**: `haldanes.com`, `deacons.com`, `gallhk.com` — all large law firms with substantial
presences in both languages. Everything else differs. English leans on `whatclinic.com`,
`legal500.com` and firms' own English sites; Chinese leans on `cosmopolitan.com.hk`,
`hkfindlawyer.com`, `inlifebeauty.com.hk` and `hellotoby.com`.

A Hong Kong practice's English and Chinese visibility are therefore two separate problems with two
separate fix lists. Being well represented in the sources feeding English answers does almost
nothing for the Chinese ones, and translating your own pages does not address it either — the issue
is which third-party sources carry you.

## The two verticals share no sources at all

The aesthetics top-20 and legal top-20 have **zero domains in common**. This rules out generic "get
listed on the big directories" advice: the directories that matter to a clinic (`whatclinic.com`,
`inlifebeauty.com.hk`, `hellotoby.com`, `tocarehealth.com`) and to a firm (`hkfindlawyer.com`,
`legal500.com`, `hklawsoc.org.hk`) are disjoint sets.

## The most-cited sources

Share is the percentage of all 346 answers citing the domain at least once.

| Domain | Answers citing | Share | Mostly | EN | 中文 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `haldanes.com` | 47 | 13.6% | Legal | 24 | 23 |
| `whatclinic.com` | 40 | 11.6% | Aesthetics | 39 | 0 |
| `cosmopolitan.com.hk` | 31 | 9.0% | Aesthetics | 0 | 26 |
| `deacons.com` | 30 | 8.7% | Legal | 20 | 10 |
| `inlifebeauty.com.hk` | 29 | 8.4% | Aesthetics | 0 | 23 |
| `redefine.com.hk` | 27 | 7.8% | Aesthetics | 0 | 25 |
| `hkfindlawyer.com` | 25 | 7.2% | Legal | 0 | 24 |
| `gallhk.com` | 22 | 6.4% | Legal | 9 | 13 |
| `drhealthbeauty.com` | 21 | 6.1% | Aesthetics | 16 | 0 |
| `titus.com.hk` | 21 | 6.1% | Legal | 7 | 14 |
| `tocarehealth.com` | 20 | 5.8% | Aesthetics | 0 | 18 |
| `robertleelawoffices.com` | 20 | 5.8% | Legal | 15 | 0 |
| `hellotoby.com` | 19 | 5.5% | Aesthetics | 0 | 14 |
| `tannerdewitt.com` | 19 | 5.5% | Legal | 19 | 0 |
| `ytt.com.hk` | 19 | 5.5% | Legal | 0 | 19 |
| `legal500.com` | 18 | 5.2% | Legal | 18 | 0 |
| `piannen.com` | 17 | 4.9% | Aesthetics | 0 | 15 |
| `faceofangel.hk` | 15 | 4.3% | Aesthetics | 10 | 0 |
| `psmedical.com.hk` | 15 | 4.3% | Aesthetics | 13 | 0 |
| `cosmed.hk` | 15 | 4.3% | Aesthetics | 0 | 10 |
| `cclee.com.hk` | 15 | 4.3% | Legal | 0 | 15 |
| `bestagree.com` | 14 | 4.0% | Aesthetics | 0 | 10 |
| `yansgroup.com.hk` | 14 | 4.0% | Aesthetics | 14 | 0 |
| `skinoptimahk.com` | 14 | 4.0% | Aesthetics | 14 | 0 |
| `hgzrt.com` | 13 | 3.8% | Aesthetics | 0 | 9 |

## Own websites are present but not dominant

Several business websites rank high — `haldanes.com` at the top, plus `deacons.com`,
`redefine.com.hk`, `drhealthbeauty.com`, `titus.com.hk`. A practice's own site clearly can become a
cited source. But the aggregate weight sits with directories, listing platforms and magazines,
which a business influences by being present and accurate on them rather than by publishing more of
its own pages. The businesses whose own domains rank here also appear across the third-party sources.

## The dataset

Top 50 domains with counts by vertical, language and assistant surface. CC BY 4.0.

- https://simplyai.work/data/hk-ai-citation-sources-2026-08.csv
- https://simplyai.work/data/hk-ai-citation-sources-2026-08.json

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**Cite this dataset:** SimplyAI (2026). *Sources cited by AI assistants for Hong Kong aesthetic
clinics and law firms, August 2026.* 346 grounded answers, six assistants, EN + 繁中. CC BY 4.0.
https://simplyai.work/learn/which-sources-ai-cites-hong-kong/