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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Do any of us still use Google in this way though?

    Sure maybe nanna still talks to google like an Oracle… “oh Google what is the best printer of 2024”

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yeah…have you ever had to buy new appliances? I just got a house, half my searches were for appliances, fittings and reviews and the results all sucked.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Well yeah I do have appliances, but I don’t think I’ve ever searched for product reviews for household appliances.

        I just don’t find reviews for this stuff very helpful I guess.

              • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                6 months ago

                I don’t really follow you sorry.

                I can’t think of a time I’ve needed to buy an appliance I didn’t know existed nor how it works ?

                Even if I didn’t really know anything that doesn’t really matter. Usually purchases are heavily influenced by my budget. It’s not a question of what features I need, it’s a question of which product is the most reliable given the amount I want to pay.

                • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                  6 months ago

                  Well I’m not a homeowner so I’ve never purchased a household appliance really, but I also grew up in a time (Gen-Z) where most everything is one type of scam or another, everyone wants to sell you a course or some other crap, and everything in an ad is nothing you want to ever have, so I feel the need to research everything thoroughly even if ultimately my budget is the deciding factor.

                  If I wanted to buy a new washing machine, I have no idea what goes into that, like what makes a good washing machine and fundamentally I don’t really know how it works, I know there’s water and spinning, but beyond that it might as well be magic, so how would I choose what to buy if say there were three options at the same price point?

                  Case in point last time I bought a microwave I just got one that seemed to have as few electronics as possible, staying well away from anything advertised and staying well away from microwaves that could auto-connect to car hifi Bluetooth bullshit.

                  Somehow I got lucky with a really reliable old one with a fun actual real analog bell you can ding by turning the knob on and off, but at least with that I knew more watts equals more betterer, but with a washing machine I have simply no clue, more water? More spin? Sucks in the pods better? I’ve no idea. So how do you decide? What about a boiler? A dryer? A kettle? An oven? A stove?

                  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                    6 months ago

                    I think you’re over thinking these things.

                    There’s just no way I would “research” washing machines. They all work in the same way. They all have the same features. The last time I bought one the deciding factor was a 10 year factory guarantee.