Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier by ethbr0 on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:04PM (#31814265)

I (about half-honestly) blame Amazon, and more recently Google Maps.

All reviewers are not created equal.

In the early days before mass-SEO, you at least got the benefit of most reviewers being authentic, even if inept.

Now, we have the worst of all possible words: mass fake reviews + a public trained to expect only amateur-level reviews.

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Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier by Scoundreller on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:38PM (#31815618)

It doesn’t help that google has largely de-prioritized smaller sites.

For better or for worse, my reviews about banks and their products have now been replaced by 10 links in a row to different sub-pages of the bank’s domain.

At least it used to make sure a blog article and a forum would appear on most search term’s top10.

I get it for my “XYZ Bank’s Phone Number - talk to a human now” pages. They probably shouldn’t have out-ranked the bank’s own official site, but the bank’s own website was much less user friendly than my own despite the abuse potential.

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