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It also makes a difference for historical, medical knowledge and basically everything tha you can attach an affiliate link onto (e.g. product reviews), so... My guess is that covers a huge amount of searches.
Y'know, something you'd want up to date results for so you're not potentially buying older worse products.
It seems like every new product is worse than shit that was out 5 years ago anyway. Less functional, shorter lifespan, etc. Especially electronics.
I get what you're saying, but"older doesn't necessary mean "worse".
But it does mean that the reviews you based your decisions on are for old models (that may have sense been upgraded or changed) or discontinued products.
Yes, but if you listen to the 'reviews' now, all you're getting is the regurgitated product description compared to the product description of the other contenders. Except instead of the two sentences that were the original description, you get a five sentence opening about the topic, Somewhere between 12-15 sentences about the product that don't add anything relevant (repeat)^ (for each product), and then a conclusion that's random, arbitrary, and probably influenced by money.
At least with the older models I can see real information if I can find real reviews. If I have to extrapolate from there to today, I'm still better off.
I'm a computer guy, 90% of the things I'm gonna wanna see reviews for are ABSOLUTELY things where older means worse. A review of a year+ old cpu, for example, is absolutely meaningless to me, I wanna see how good the bleeding edge stuff performs.
I'm a "computer guy" as well and I don't nearly have the need for all he bleeding edge stuff. Especially for server, budget/used options, homelabs and open source software (where the drivers aren't optimized yet), older hardware is way enough for the job.
Sure, but I don't need reviews for that stuff. I would've already seen those when they were actually, y'know, new.
The bleeding edge stuff isn't stuff I personally need nor can afford. I just like learning about the newest and greatest tech.
Good for you. Not everyone is as close to the bleeding edge as you, tho.