Fantastic -- if super-distressing -- article by Gisele Navarro about the horrible state of product reviews online
The tl;dr is that Google seems to overweight reviews from longstanding big journalism brands ...
... but many of those brands, like Popular Science, were long ago bought up by private equity or conglomerates, then hollowed out ...
... so they now produce crappy articles that are *probably* lying about their "test labs" to please Google
https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
Read it! So good
Clive Thompson /
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