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Reddit or (a very small number of) youtubers are pretty much the only sources of truthful and good-faith product reviews. Almost all of my recent purchases are due to recommendations by hobbyist subreddits like r/mechanicalkeyboards, r/photography, r/bifl, etc.

Google automated ranking, using totally random pagerank algos, which was their downfall. Reddit and youtube, in general, rely on crowdsourced ranking, which is harder to game (not impossible).




I have the impression many Reddit subs are overly commercialized.

/r/mechanicalkeyboards being a good example - they’re kind of nice, but not worthy of the veneration they receive.


Yeah, I tend to use a site:reddit.com in my searches.

Does this imply there is some simple filtering methods that should be done on all google searches to provide a "filtered" internet that is better?

If you're just indexing things that you trust, search might not be that hard.




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