AnandTech is no more! Website is ending operations after 27 years

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Anandtech is shutting down

Oh, man. I'm really sad about this, but wish the remaining staff all the best in their future endeavours. I was that weird kid who would run home from middle school and boot up the computer and open up Anandtech to read new articles, literally more than daily, it was so central to me ending up...
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SHA said:
Yeah, seriously, it's social media and web 3.0, I'm pissed from tech guys in their 40s still defending websites development, bro, wake up, why are you doing this to your followers?
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The internet sucks today. I'll always remember the days before Web 2.0 and the Facebook Like button took over everything. So many unique web pages, more personable conversations over ICQ/MSN Messenger… the Wild West of technology.
 
It's a shame for sure, I've read that website a lot. However, after anand lai was hired by apple it lost a lot.

Ars Technica still survives, but it's become a news aggregator almost. I still remember when they published 30 page detailed reviews of new versions of windows and osx.

Social media has gobbled up attention and running these kind of sites alongside or under them, has become very, very hard.
 
I read the site all the time when it was PC focused, less when Anand started sucking up to apple and not at all once he got hired by them.
 
Euler007 said:
I read the site all the time when it was PC focused, less when Anand started sucking up to apple and not at all once he got hired by them.
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Yeah, that was one of the sites I used to follow on computer hardware for reviews.

Man, life was better before social media, AI and SEO f-d up everything.
 
StereoVsn said:
Yeah, that was one of the sites I used to follow on computer hardware for reviews.

Man, life was better before social media, AI and SEO f-d up everything.
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Google has been SEOd to death to the point its search results can become meaningless. Lately I've had to use bing and DuckDuckGo to get meaningful results.

And now you have AI generated sites polluting it…
 
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Bitmap Frogs said:
Google has been SEOd to death to the point its search results can become meaningless. Lately I've had to use bing and DuckDuckGo to get meaningful results.

And now you have AI generated sites polluting it…
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Unfortunately Bing standalone still sucks so much that even SEO'd Google is better. But yeah, I also use DuckDuckGo, Brave Search and a few others like Qwant and Mojeek.

Surprisingly Google Gemini often does a better job vs actual Google. Perplexity is also good, but I am not a fan of only using AI searches.

There is also a sub based search service Kagi that I haven't tried.

I still think Internet was better before say 2007-2008 when stupid Facebook started getting popular.
 
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