At risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, think back to how you would've browsed the internet before Google. You probably would've grown your own we

At risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, think back to how you would've browsed the internet before Google. You probably would've grown your own web-directory of bookmarks, right? That's also how you explore the non-SEO-paved parts of the internet now. I haven't learned to find product reviews yet, but I imagine that a trick would be to know which forums to go for certain kinds of products, e.g. maybe https://xdaforums.com/ https://xdaforums.com/ for Android devices. There is also the search engine https://boardreader.com/ https://boardreader.com/ which ONLY searches proper forums--sometimes you find neat threads, sometimes not.