Barry said:
Where could I find objective software evaluations?
Shenan said:
I guess that would depend on what *type* of software you were
interested in reading the objective evaluations on..
Most entities that evaluate software like that have a specialty.
Googling is likely to bring up results if you are more specific
with your search.
Barry said:
The key word is "OBJECTIVE". If I do a search, I'm at the mercy of
the search engine. I don't want to guess at which ones will be
objective.
Same answer - depends on the software..
You would also have to know about the entity doing the evaluation - whether
they are being objective or not.
For example - you would assume (possibly incorrectly) that an individual
givig opinions on epinions.com about a product is objective - but you do not
know if they work for the company or were paid by the company in question
for endorsments and are therefore just excited about the money - not the
product.
The only thing you can do when researching a product (software or otherwise)
is to read as many reviews as you can find - try to find pages like
Amazon.com's reviews, Buy.com's reviews, NewEgg.com's reviews, epinions.com,
betanews.com, etc.. that have reviews done by people just like you - who
bought/used the product and wanted to come back and say something. Weight
those in your own mind - because you can never be sure (100%) just how
objective the reviews/evaluations were.
