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The Ringer / Alyssa Bereznak / Jun 17, 2019
“In the past few years, affiliate-powered recommendation verticals have grown so numerous that they’ve become as hard to parse as the vast shopping expanse they were meant to simplify. Publications that feature a form of this business include, but are not limited to, The New York Times, USA Today, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo Media Group, The Verge, Popular Science, CNN, New York magazine, Business Insider, CNET, Digital Trends, and the conservative news site The Daily Caller. On top of that, a handful of SEO-friendly outposts have materialized: Tom’s Guide, BestProducts.com, BestReviews.com, Reviews.com, OutdoorGearLab.com, and TechGearLab.com, to name a few. These sites all have their own set of testing standards and style, meaning that they rarely share a consensus of the superior version of any appliance, gadget, or doohickey.”
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