Consider what is called a technical breakthrough and a new product for 2022. I would think it is an introduction in the last 6 months. What do I find? I find newish products. Some have been around long enough to have 12,000 optometrists using them - that's the Peeps eyeglass lens cleaner. Most of the other products are also old enough to not really be newish.
There are so many reviews that the product has to be around for a while. The reviews of products are definitely problematic. How do you check whether ratings and reviews are valid? And then so many of them are unreadable English with jumbled sentences, failed grammar and nonsense words.
Amazon reviews pop up at the top. It is known that a substantial number of these reviews are not authentic. Amazon pays for them with free products and gift cards. The producing company does the same. Competing companies pay for bad reviews of their competitors.
That's my exercise in finding new products today. The Google search engine is crammed with junk now. It is no longer a usable general search engine. It is fine for shopping and finding things on Amazon.
Bing is in better shape. One actually retrieves articles on newer technologies. Now the issue is that the articles in magazines like Esquire stretch the definition of new, so we're at a base level problem. Those peeps eyewear people must pay a lot to get their products constantly included in reviews.
In contrast to that, there was a pleasant 'aha' moment this morning when I looked at the front page of the Globe and Mail. The picture of Chrystia Freeland is a showcase moment of her budget speech. I thought the headline could easily read: "Meet your next Liberal Leader". Or even "Meet your next PM".
We won't be seeing the Himalayan Poppies at Longwood this year. This picture was taken in 2013.
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