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Result #1 & #2 for kitchen appliance review (your personalised/local results might vary):

Google:

https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/home-garden/home-appliances

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/appliances/

Bing:

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/fitted-kitchens/article/plan...

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/appliances/

DDG:

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/appliances/

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/fitted-kitchens/article/plan...

Marginalia:

https://www.infiniteeureka.com/shop-markdowns-on-small-kitch...

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/sarah.htm

Mojeek:

https://www.appliancesreviewed.net/

https://busybakers.co.uk/category/kitchen-appliance-reviews/

Most of these are spam. They contain affiliate links to Amazon to buy the product which is being reviewed, therefore the the review cannot be trusted.

"Which" looks to be the exception, but that is a paid-for service.

It's a sad state of affairs.

I understand your opinion about affiliate links - but I use several review websites that use such links for all products they review, and have both positive and negative reviews for products. So I wouldn’t say it necessarily follows that affiliate links = biased reviews.

How often do they give their best review score or opinion to a product without an affiliate link? Not every product will have an accessible affiliate link.

Isn’t Amazon commonly used for most affiliate links or has that changed in recent years? Amazon isn’t the cheapest all the time any more. Nor is its customer support the top any more

Also, I've noticed that the list of products reviewed is limited to only those that _have_ Amazon affiliate links. If a product is only available on not-Amazon stores, they don't even get mentioned. Which is a bias in itself.

Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. A big bias right there.

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