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I love Google products, but I can't help but agree. I'm currently trying to find a colour laser printer that has good performance (quality vs speed) with a reas
by buro9 16y ago
I love Google products, but I can't help but agree. I'm currently trying to find a colour laser printer that has good performance (quality vs speed) with a reasonable running cost over the life of the printer (at least a few years).
All I'm getting is either the manufacturers slant (PR) or spam sites all harvesting the same reviews.
To solve this I now look for vertical based search sites. In this case http://www.printershowcase.com/small-officecolorlaser.aspx http://www.printershowcase.com/small-officecolorlaser.aspx is the best I've found... but it's hardly to printers what dpreview is to cameras.
I stick with Google because it largely works well, but when I know what I want to see and that it must exist but cannot find it... then I find myself looking elsewhere all the time. DDG and Blekko I use in these cases, but even they're not solving these kinds of needs.
- stephenbez 16y agoI trust Amazon for my product reviews.
- buro9 16y agoBeyond books and music... I don't. Too many products without reviews. No control for the reviews. Example... the HP CP4025 appears to be good (I have a HP Z800 workstation so thought it was worth checking HP for the hell of it)... yet I haven't found a balanced and comparable review for it. I'd like to see it set against other small office printers and to see the average cost per print. It's on Amazon twice: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Color-LaserJet-Enterprise-CP4025n-1000Base-T/dp/B0036LAFMS/ref=sr_1_1?s=officeproduct&ie=UTF8&qid=1293915915&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Color-LaserJet-Enterprise-CP4025n-10... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Color-LaserJet-Enterprise-CP4025dn-1000Base-T/dp/B0036L37U0/ref=sr_1_2?s=officeproduct&ie=UTF8&qid=1293915915&sr=1-2 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Color-LaserJet-Enterprise-CP4025dn-1... But no reviews. I'd like Google to take my search terms and help me find stuff... you know, that "sort the world's data" thing, to make sense of my terms and show me the results I'm looking for. Google isn't working for me. Amazon isn't working for me. It takes hours and hours of searching in circles to research even the most basic purchasing decision.
- tedunangst 16y agoI've found them nearly useless. Way too many people giving one star reviews because their 15" laptop doesn't fit in a 13" bag. If you take the time to read all the reviews, you can weed out the idiots, but sifting out the haters and the astroturfers can take longer than just going to a store and fondling the merchandise.