All of the google results are articles that were obviously written by a machine and recommend the same ten most popular products. There are communities for every conceivable type of product on reddit, but they are all full of people saying things like "this $ 500 toaster is a pretty good starter, but you'll soon want to upgrade to this $ 1200 one, it has a much fuller set of features." I've had to resort to watching youtube videos, but even those are unreliable because they benefit from calling each product the best or worst ever.
I feel like it wasn't like this just five or ten years ago. Did things actually change, or am I just misremembering?
Top ten lists have been replaced by lists of winners of bespoke categories. No more “these are the best laptops, ranked”, instead you get “best convertible laptop”, “best gaming laptop”, “best budget laptop”, “best productivity laptop”.
It’s like they’re so afraid of offending the brands by actually comparing products that they’ve resorted to this as a way to give everyone a trophy.
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JD Power awards but for disposable wet wipes
https://www.rtings.com/ has in-depth reviews, categorised reviews, overall reviews etc. All while explaining what ratings mean and why they are important. Pretty good imo, but then again there's also just so many products out there that being this in-depth means they could be missing a load of good stuff