Same experience here. Researching high-quality products on Google is very frustrating:

- Results 1-3 are ads

- Results 3-5 are blogs that get sponsored

- Results 5-10 are full of astroturfed user reviews

Finding trustworthy and consistent information is so hard that I mostly rely on Reddit for product research. There is a subreddit for literally every product category, and posting a request with your requirements takes much less time than cutting through all the noise on Google.

To make this whole mess a better experience, I'm now working on my own startup that tries to solve these issues.