How some big outlets are inundating the web with bad product recommendations without testing the products, and how Google is helping them through inaction
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 ... … Forums: Hacker News : Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations r/technology : How Google is killing independent sites like ours r/google : How Google is killing independent sites like ours