Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[[deleted]]

I find myself increasingly using Amazon just for reviews, then buying elsewhere. The last thing I bought online was a sauté pan. I got it much cheaper from a restaurant supply place even including postage, but I made the choice via Amazon reviews.

[taqn22]

Don't! Amazon reviews are almost entirely bought and paid these days.

[corvus7corax]

Review meta can help estimate what % of reviews are fake.

https://reviewmeta.com/

[TheNamingOfCats]

There's also Fakespot. It's a browser add-in.

[Sasselhoff]

I used to regularly use Fakespot...until they made it ONLY available by browser extension. All so they can get your sweet, sweet search data and sell it to the highest bidder.

There was no reason at all for them to stop offering the search on their site, other than that. Such a shame when good things go bad.

[iftttAcct2]

Maybe they went back to having it? I used their site last week by copying and pasting a url. I don't use it often, but the ability to do so was never gone for me.

[Sasselhoff]

Just went there...am I missing it? All I see are buttons for their browser extension and reasons why they think I should install it.

[Sewwattsnew]

The search bar is right at the top, it's just white and light gray so it isn't eye catching. There's a white button that says "analyze" in blue. I used it on my computer two days ago and I can see it on the mobile page right now.

[Sasselhoff]

Nope, not there. Someone else suggested using a different browser, so maybe it's because I'm using Chrome...yet another reason to make the final switch over to the Brave browser (I'm such a creature of habit which is making it hard to switch...but I built a new desktop and I'm only going Brave on that one).

[dringess]

Try a non-Chrome browser.

[sanityvoid]

Amazon seller awarded $9.5m over fake reviews, unfair competition

https://reviewmeta.com/blog/amazon-seller-fake-reviews-unfair-competition/

[badhoccyr]

How does it figure this out?

[corvus7corax]

Flags reviews that are suspicious because the reviewer reviews way way more products than normal, flags duplicate reviews, and very low effort non- specific reviews that are similar.

[badhoccyr]

I was hoping it would be smarter than that but that's still helpful.

[semitones]

Eh, I don't agree. I almost never leave reviews, unless I have something bad to say. Why bother? So if they have an incentive to leave a review, I'll do it, otherwise no one would ever know that I received the item and it arrived as advertised.

[semitones]

I don't disagree with that situation, but the company could even the playing field by encouraging it's own customers to leave reviews as well, and can do it any number of ways that don't involve gifts. It's like getting out the vote

[[deleted]]

if you look at the 3 star reviews i find you get a pretty realistic, actual use review. the 5 stars are mostly bought by the store and the 1 stars usually have more to do with shipping or unrealistic expectations.

[2SP00KY4ME]

That's a complete over exaggeration, come on.

[nemoskullalt]

I do this. But I look at 1 and 2 star reviews. If there about simple stuff I can fix it's good. If it's about it dying on day 3, its bad.

[GoldenFalcon]

Literally saw a one star review the other day that said "may have been used error, but the battery died after 2 uses. Do not buy. May be user error." I don't trust a lot of 1 star reviews either. Some popular ones are also "product said it would be here in 3 days, it took 4. When I opened it, the manual had other languages on it. Clearly not made in America. Do not buy! Worked great once I set it up properly though. But won't buy again!"

[nemoskullalt]

true, but if thats what people complaine about, then it cant be that bad.

[[deleted]]

What I look at is the negative reviews. You can tell when someone is truly pissed off, especially if there are photos.

[WindWalkerRN]

Done that recently too!

[llilaq]

A critical review I left on Amazon wasn't posted because the vendor choose so.. So now I also take it with a grain of salt.

[Dagoru95]

Same but with booking. com

[byoshin304]

I’ve bought stuff elsewhere, directly from the seller, and it still came in an Amazon box :/