Comment by postalcoder

My guess is that their pivot came after distress, and was not the cause of it. It'd be great to have @rushingcreek write a post-mortem. I think it'd benefit a lot of people because I honestly don't have a monday morning playbook of what could have saved them.

Like you said, perhaps the demise of phind was inevitable, with large models displacing them kind of like how Spotify displaced music piracy.