[shaoner]

In my opinion, it comes back to search engines not giving you a the best answer. If you're looking for the best headset with whatever feature, you'll find mostly sponsored reviews, or at the very least hard to trust reviews.

On the other hand, some random people's opinions in a Reddit community with -apparently- no further agenda seem somewhat more honest.

Not that the answer is better but it gives you new data points in your search.

Basically, it's not one or the other, you can use both tools and that's probably why it makes sense to include Reddit in AI models (which do this job for you automatically)