CNET bought popular TV site, tvtome.com a few months ago. TVTome was like the IMDb of television. It was functional, informative and easy to use. For a few months after they bought it they left it pretty much as it was, with just a link to some of their other sites at the top of the page. Until now. I visited the site for the first time in a couple of weeks today, and CNET have now rebranded it (As TV.com) and turned it into a horrible, ad-ridden piece of shit. Well done, assholes.
I’m not linking because they don’t deserve the traffic or pagerank.
Here’s one of many unflattering definitions of “CNET” from urban dictionary:
Evil people who take over loved message boards and websites and piss people off.
Their business model seems to be something out of Wayne’s World:
Thursday: Take over feeble cable access show and exploit it.
Friday: Take over much loved community built website and sodomize it.
These assholes have done it before with gamefaqs.com and mp3.com.