> big publishing conglomerates like Dotdash Meredith have adopted a private equity model that “utilizes public trust in long-standing publications to sell every product under the sun” via Google SEO optimization

Am I the only one who likes this? I was looking for a new smartwatch and had no idea what was out there. I took the top 100 results, which from inspection were clearly all SEO optimized as mentioned, and ran them through ChatGPT to pull out the unique features and most important considerations when choosing a smartwatch. I took the search results again and ran them again through ChatGPT but this time asked it to pull out the different smartwatches and rank them on all the features previously identified. Voila, a detailed comparison table of smartwatches. I went back and checked and no individual site (even what this article says are "actual" review sites like the WireCutter) went into as much depth on features or different models as my table. Like no, I would not read each article by itself, but if life gives you lemons, it's a great time to make lemonade.