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Ask HN: Best Reviews?
Where do you like to go to get "good" reviews? It could be for any subject like computer hardware, books, movies, etc. My hope is to avoid SEO hell, and get honest, competent information. If you don't have specific places, maybe you can suggest strategies or tools you use for wading through the junk to get to useful information.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoFind the subreddit for whatever niche you are looking for reviews in, sort by all time top posts and do a url analysis :). You may also find some outbound links in the comments. For cannabis reviews, give my site The Highest Critic a try. [0] [0] https://www.thehighestcritic.com https://www.thehighestcritic.com
- newsbinator 5y agoI usually start with WireCutter: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/ https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/
- drakonka 5y agoSame here. I usually start here if I am considering an interesting sounding product, but am not sure if a better option is already known to exist. 90% of the time if I google "[product type] wirecutter" I get a "Top x of [insert year here]" for that exact type of product. Great starting point to do more research. The reviews also sometime mention factors to consider that I hadn't thought of before if the product category is relatively new to me. So even if I don't end up getting one of their top picks it helps to know what properties to watch out for.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoBooks: Goodreads, /lit/, r/books Computer Hardware: Google and redditsearch.io Movies: Imdb, Trakt.tv, Tmdb, Rotten Tomato/Metacritic User Score, Myanimelist (for anime movies)
- yesenadam 5y agoMovies/series: I read IMDb user reviews, a page or two of them, and read between the lines. The numerical rating alone means very little. Also, if a movie is rated 7, I know that of two movies — one with all reviews 7 stars, another with half 4 stars, and half 10 stars — I will like the second infinitely more, and the first will be mediocre. There are a few 'external reviewers' I mostly trust: Roger Ebert, Moria, Louise Keller.