Researching products and services before buying them is one of the most important steps in the process. The Internet contains information about virtually any new product and it is possible to form a strong opinion based on user and website reviews. Inexperienced users on the other hand might feel lost or even intimidated by the wealth of information offered on the Internet. Who to trust is not easily answered. Testfreaks (via Lost In Technology) is a review aggregator. It monitors thousands of review sources and combines their ratings in a visually pleasing interface.
Categories range from computer hardware to digital cameras and camcorders, office equipment and even baby and kid stuff. Users looking for a specific product can use the search form on top of the service which will display suggestions during the process. The approach is best suited to find a specific product quickly as it makes more sense to type in the product name directly than to browse the specific category on the website.
Browsing one of the categories is the better approach if you know that you need a new product but have no specific company and model in mind. Products can be sorted by various means including price, popularity, name or FreakScore. FreakScore is a weighted index of all aggregated professional and user reviews. The main advantage of this approach is that scores from different review sites and user reviews are combined to compute a better score for each product.
Expert and user reviews can be read to get a better understanding of the score. Testfreaks mashes up reviews from sites like Amazon with reviews on professional review sites like Benchmark reviews.
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Oh no! you put me in a spending mood again.
Useful site though.
Great service! I really love it!
like MetaCritic, but for consumer electronics. cool
Hi There,
I have been looking into this area of gaining Product Review Feed(s) for my websites future customer base, however I can’t seem to find any links in this article or around the site that directs me to any place whereby I can find further information about any services you have for Ecommerce Merchants?
I look forward to hearing from somebody soon hopefully.
Regards,
Robert Stones