And 90% of statistics are made up on the spot. 
Each review, in and by itself, being the creation of a person, will be biased to a degree. Many of the "top hosts" sites seem to not have any kind of experience with the hosts they recommend though, and present no outside data/information on which they rely for their recommendations. In such cases, their recommendations/reviews are nothing but sales pieces.
Then you have the review collecting sites. These would require serious manpower to be kept clean, because many hosts engage in review planting and competitor bashing, which they simply lack. Rampant abuse leads to review credibility going to zero, which in turn makes the site in itself irrelevant, even when the site is well intended (which is quite often false).
Of course, most website visitors have no idea of what goes on behind the scenes, and take what they read pretty much at face value, meaning that such sites can remain profitable, so they're not going to disappear anytime soon. |
