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        "rationale": "Open-web; broad LLM corpus inclusion; engines increasingly down-weight contributor pieces."
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    },
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      "rank": 124,
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        "value": 65,
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    },
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      "rank": 125,
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      "name": "Asahi Shimbun",
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        "value": 65,
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        "rationale": "Hard paywall on Japanese content; English edition open but smaller scope."
      }
    },
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      "rank": 126,
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      "name": "AnandTech",
      "domain": "anandtech.com",
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        "rationale": "Site closed for new content August 2024; archive still indexed; no new freshness signal."
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      "rank": 127,
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      "name": "Gartner",
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      "category": "Business",
      "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/gartner/",
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        "rationale": "Hard paywall on full reports; press releases + summaries free; schema basic."
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      "rank": 128,
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      "rank": 129,
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