Comments on: CNET Is Bleeding Traffic http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/ Startup and Technology News Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Break out the yellow ties and suspenders, it’s M&A time in the Valley at Churbuck.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-2298512 Break out the yellow ties and suspenders, it’s M&A time in the Valley at Churbuck.com Thu, 15 May 2008 11:53:41 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-2298512 [...] CNET goes to CBS for $1.2 billion — a 44% premium over yesterday’s closing price. Silicon Alley Reporter has the skinny and is blogging the call at 8:30 EST. What can I say? CNET started as a TV show, morphed into an online network, blazed some strong trails in the early days (from developing its own content management system, early moves into video and user reviews, extension quickly from computers to consumer electronics), grew like a weed, ate the traditional tech rags lunches, acquired ZDNet, then, post 2000 bubble-pop, hiccupped a little, soldiered on, the founders (Halsey Minor, et al) moved on, and then, indigniities of indignities, upstarts start picking fights with them. [...] [...] CNET goes to CBS for $1.2 billion — a 44% premium over yesterday’s closing price. Silicon Alley Reporter has the skinny and is blogging the call at 8:30 EST. What can I say? CNET started as a TV show, morphed into an online network, blazed some strong trails in the early days (from developing its own content management system, early moves into video and user reviews, extension quickly from computers to consumer electronics), grew like a weed, ate the traditional tech rags lunches, acquired ZDNet, then, post 2000 bubble-pop, hiccupped a little, soldiered on, the founders (Halsey Minor, et al) moved on, and then, indigniities of indignities, upstarts start picking fights with them. [...]

]]> By: Webshots Adds Video http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-679143 Webshots Adds Video Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:56:45 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-679143 [...] The company claims its video service will have a 50-percent larger viewing area and nearly 3-times the bitrate of other video sites. As we wrote last month, CNet in general is bleeding traffic and Webshots in particular has seen a 69% drop in third quarter traffic. Adding video to Webshots could be a smart move if Webshots can bring something unique to the market. I’m not sure large play and higher quality is going to speak to users as much as the large community of YouTube or the privacy controls and file integrity of Multiply. Webshots may be suffering, but it’s far from dead yet. In June Hitwise identified Webshots as the 3rd leading photo sharing site online, behind only Photobucket and Yahoo! Photos. [...] [...] The company claims its video service will have a 50-percent larger viewing area and nearly 3-times the bitrate of other video sites. As we wrote last month, CNet in general is bleeding traffic and Webshots in particular has seen a 69% drop in third quarter traffic. Adding video to Webshots could be a smart move if Webshots can bring something unique to the market. I’m not sure large play and higher quality is going to speak to users as much as the large community of YouTube or the privacy controls and file integrity of Multiply. Webshots may be suffering, but it’s far from dead yet. In June Hitwise identified Webshots as the 3rd leading photo sharing site online, behind only Photobucket and Yahoo! Photos. [...]

]]> By: Webshots Adds Video » JenIT http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-423427 Webshots Adds Video » JenIT Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:37:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-423427 [...] The company claims its video service will have a 50-percent larger viewing area and nearly 3-times the bitrate of other video sites. As we wrote last month, CNet in general is bleeding traffic and Webshots in particular has seen a 69% drop in third quarter traffic. Adding video to Webshots could be a smart move if Webshots can bring something unique to the market. I’m not sure large play and higher quality is going to speak to users as much as the large community of YouTube or the privacy controls and file integrity of Multiply. Webshots may be suffering, but it’s far from dead yet. In June Hitwise identified Webshots as the 3rd leading photo sharing site online, behind only Photobucket and Yahoo! Photos. [...] [...] The company claims its video service will have a 50-percent larger viewing area and nearly 3-times the bitrate of other video sites. As we wrote last month, CNet in general is bleeding traffic and Webshots in particular has seen a 69% drop in third quarter traffic. Adding video to Webshots could be a smart move if Webshots can bring something unique to the market. I’m not sure large play and higher quality is going to speak to users as much as the large community of YouTube or the privacy controls and file integrity of Multiply. Webshots may be suffering, but it’s far from dead yet. In June Hitwise identified Webshots as the 3rd leading photo sharing site online, behind only Photobucket and Yahoo! Photos. [...]

]]> By: Plasma Diary - An aggregation of latest updates in Gizmo World! » Why Webshots is Losing Traffic http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-319003 Plasma Diary - An aggregation of latest updates in Gizmo World! » Why Webshots is Losing Traffic Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:35:32 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-319003 [...] Why Webshots is Losing Traffic By Administrator Disclaimer, I am the Evangelist and CEO for the company Zooomr. Zooomr would be seen as a competitor to Webshots in the photo sharing space. Techcrunch — CNET Is Bleeding Traffic Mike Arrington is out with a post on CNET and notes that CNET has had a rough go of it lately. Noteably CEO Shelby Bonnie resigned earlier this week when the company was hit with more controversy surrounding an option repricing scandle. Unfortunately worse than their CEO’s resignation it would appear that CNET’s traffic has been taking quite a hit. Arrington says that the Comscore data on CNET shows September 2006 traffic at 616 million page views vs. 1.37 billion pages from September 2005. Certainly there is some debate as to whether or not page views should be the be all end all of measurement and metrics. A poorly designed page, as has been pointed out in the past, can produce significantly more page views than a well designed page. Still, for the time being we still live in a world where internet properties are largely judged successes or failures based on the page view metric. Bolded by Arrington, one of the largest drops in traffic has been with CNET’s Webshots property, which Arrington says has dropped 69% year over year in traffic. Back in November of 2005 I wrote an article called Flickr and Webshots, A Classic Web 2.0 Case, when Flickr first passed Webshots on the Alexa charts. A few months back Webshots unveileved a new redesigned site — I suspect in hopes of somehow turning around their lagging traffic. While I will say that the site feels much better than it did before — I think fundamentally Webshots still has a long way to go and has not gotten Web 2.0. The biggest thing still missing at Webshots is the power of a social network. Tagging, notes, people notes, groups, communities, social networks, friends of friends, etc. are all largely missing or not positioned in a way to build the social interaction necessary to make their property become viral and truly succeed. It’s tough for Webshots of course because with almost 500 million photos now they have become like a giant oil tanker that just can’t be moved overnight. Feature decisions must be made more deliberately and scale must be considered in everything that they do. Still, unless they turn on the social networking side of things they risk losing even more traffic in the future. I believe that the future of the “photo site as a playground” is deeply rooted in the social side of things and this is what I think it would take to turn Webshots around. Webshots does do a lot of things right. I particularly like the fact that they have built a revenue share program where top photographers can offer up their stuff for sale and they can share in revenue created from their work. I think their channels approach is also interesting. But at the same time, without the social networking tools more prominently built into their site, a visit just lacks the sort of excitement and compelling feel that it should. On the plus side I do think consumating.com (another CNET property) is doing a lot of things right on the social networking side of things. I think Yelp is also an interesting property of theirs. Hopefully a lot of what they are doing will rub off on Webshots in the future. At Zooomr of course are looking at implementing many of these social features aggresively into Zooomr within the next 6 to 12 months. We do of course have an advantage in being considerably smaller than a site like Webshots, not having scale issues yet today, and having a developer who likes to crank out cool new features at the pace of about one a week and has the energy of an 18 year old to stay up all night doing it. Update: Grrrrr. Veronica just reminded me that I mentioned Yelp in the above article as a CNET property (which they are not). I meant to say Chowhound which is a CNET property doing interesting things in the social networking space. Yelp of course is pretty cool too. [...] [...] Why Webshots is Losing Traffic By Administrator Disclaimer, I am the Evangelist and CEO for the company Zooomr. Zooomr would be seen as a competitor to Webshots in the photo sharing space. Techcrunch — CNET Is Bleeding Traffic Mike Arrington is out with a post on CNET and notes that CNET has had a rough go of it lately. Noteably CEO Shelby Bonnie resigned earlier this week when the company was hit with more controversy surrounding an option repricing scandle. Unfortunately worse than their CEO’s resignation it would appear that CNET’s traffic has been taking quite a hit. Arrington says that the Comscore data on CNET shows September 2006 traffic at 616 million page views vs. 1.37 billion pages from September 2005. Certainly there is some debate as to whether or not page views should be the be all end all of measurement and metrics. A poorly designed page, as has been pointed out in the past, can produce significantly more page views than a well designed page. Still, for the time being we still live in a world where internet properties are largely judged successes or failures based on the page view metric. Bolded by Arrington, one of the largest drops in traffic has been with CNET’s Webshots property, which Arrington says has dropped 69% year over year in traffic. Back in November of 2005 I wrote an article called Flickr and Webshots, A Classic Web 2.0 Case, when Flickr first passed Webshots on the Alexa charts. A few months back Webshots unveileved a new redesigned site — I suspect in hopes of somehow turning around their lagging traffic. While I will say that the site feels much better than it did before — I think fundamentally Webshots still has a long way to go and has not gotten Web 2.0. The biggest thing still missing at Webshots is the power of a social network. Tagging, notes, people notes, groups, communities, social networks, friends of friends, etc. are all largely missing or not positioned in a way to build the social interaction necessary to make their property become viral and truly succeed. It’s tough for Webshots of course because with almost 500 million photos now they have become like a giant oil tanker that just can’t be moved overnight. Feature decisions must be made more deliberately and scale must be considered in everything that they do. Still, unless they turn on the social networking side of things they risk losing even more traffic in the future. I believe that the future of the “photo site as a playground” is deeply rooted in the social side of things and this is what I think it would take to turn Webshots around. Webshots does do a lot of things right. I particularly like the fact that they have built a revenue share program where top photographers can offer up their stuff for sale and they can share in revenue created from their work. I think their channels approach is also interesting. But at the same time, without the social networking tools more prominently built into their site, a visit just lacks the sort of excitement and compelling feel that it should. On the plus side I do think consumating.com (another CNET property) is doing a lot of things right on the social networking side of things. I think Yelp is also an interesting property of theirs. Hopefully a lot of what they are doing will rub off on Webshots in the future. At Zooomr of course are looking at implementing many of these social features aggresively into Zooomr within the next 6 to 12 months. We do of course have an advantage in being considerably smaller than a site like Webshots, not having scale issues yet today, and having a developer who likes to crank out cool new features at the pace of about one a week and has the energy of an 18 year old to stay up all night doing it. Update: Grrrrr. Veronica just reminded me that I mentioned Yelp in the above article as a CNET property (which they are not). I meant to say Chowhound which is a CNET property doing interesting things in the social networking space. Yelp of course is pretty cool too. [...]

]]> By: Life is grand » Reviewers who don’t review http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-282792 Life is grand » Reviewers who don’t review Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:07:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-282792 [...] I am complaining because this isn’t some part-time reviewer but a paid reviewer on CNet. If they aren’t going to spend the time doing proper reviews I am not sure I need to bother checking them against the millions of blogs out there offering the same but in a better format. No wonder their traffic is slipping. [...] [...] I am complaining because this isn’t some part-time reviewer but a paid reviewer on CNet. If they aren’t going to spend the time doing proper reviews I am not sure I need to bother checking them against the millions of blogs out there offering the same but in a better format. No wonder their traffic is slipping. [...]

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-273038 Elizabeth Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:49:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-273038 In re: Jeremy Zawodny: "Let them rot." Wow, that's a rather hostile approach to a company that employs thousands of individuals. I would like to think that different types of tech journalist all have something to bring to the table, and that the diversity keeps tech media honest. I'd hate to see it go the way of traditional media, with everyone spouting the same crap. In re: Jeremy Zawodny: “Let them rot.”

Wow, that’s a rather hostile approach to a company that employs thousands of individuals. I would like to think that different types of tech journalist all have something to bring to the table, and that the diversity keeps tech media honest. I’d hate to see it go the way of traditional media, with everyone spouting the same crap.

]]> By: Brian http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-272972 Brian Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:07:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-272972 CNET has lost traffic to tech blogs, but I think it is a different kind of user. I go to tech crunch when I want to read about the developing Web 2.0 properties, and I visit tech blogs to see what is the new and cool electronics. I love tech crunch and tech blogs, but I also like CNET. I have not thoroughly researched or bought a product after I found it on TechCrunch, certainly not within the domain of TechCrunch/Gear. I don't generally buy whatever is the newest product because 6 months later it will be 1/4 as expensive, 4x faster, and have better customer service. Obviously this is not always true (Nintendo Wii is going to be so hot!) but I think it is a good model. CNET is where I go to research and buy the products I want. They have tons of reviews with in-depth videos, and it is all laid out pretty easily. I agree with some of the layout issues, but I checked out CNET today when i was writing this response, and it looks like they just made a big re-design. they also just added a tech blog - crave - looks interesting. People may say CNET is the past because it is not a social aggregator. As i believe was noted in a recent WSJ article, I think the future is a mix between editorial reviews and community created aggregated scores. I think CNET is creating that, and they have the background and inventory to create and sustain it. They just need to focus on the User Interface to create the best and easy experience. CNET has lost traffic to tech blogs, but I think it is a different kind of user.

I go to tech crunch when I want to read about the developing Web 2.0 properties, and I visit tech blogs to see what is the new and cool electronics. I love tech crunch and tech blogs, but I also like CNET.

I have not thoroughly researched or bought a product after I found it on TechCrunch, certainly not within the domain of TechCrunch/Gear. I don’t generally buy whatever is the newest product because 6 months later it will be 1/4 as expensive, 4x faster, and have better customer service. Obviously this is not always true (Nintendo Wii is going to be so hot!) but I think it is a good model.

CNET is where I go to research and buy the products I want. They have tons of reviews with in-depth videos, and it is all laid out pretty easily. I agree with some of the layout issues, but I checked out CNET today when i was writing this response, and it looks like they just made a big re-design. they also just added a tech blog - crave - looks interesting.

People may say CNET is the past because it is not a social aggregator. As i believe was noted in a recent WSJ article, I think the future is a mix between editorial reviews and community created aggregated scores. I think CNET is creating that, and they have the background and inventory to create and sustain it. They just need to focus on the User Interface to create the best and easy experience.

]]> By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Sequoia Invests in Blog Network Team Sugar http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270481 Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Sequoia Invests in Blog Network Team Sugar Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:14:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270481 [...] Blog networks are hot investments right now, particularly as they continue to take traffic from established (and high-overhead) news websites. at least three blog networks have raised venture financing (GigaOm, PaidContent and B5 Media), although the size of those investments combined is probably less than this Sequoia-backed round. Weblogs, Inc. was the first blog network to have a liquidity event, selling to AOL in 2005. [...] [...] Blog networks are hot investments right now, particularly as they continue to take traffic from established (and high-overhead) news websites. at least three blog networks have raised venture financing (GigaOm, PaidContent and B5 Media), although the size of those investments combined is probably less than this Sequoia-backed round. Weblogs, Inc. was the first blog network to have a liquidity event, selling to AOL in 2005. [...]

]]> By: The Infonaut » The Longer the Tail… http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270454 The Infonaut » The Longer the Tail… Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:58:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270454 [...] Today’s news about CNET’s mounting troubles include a bit about the drastic reduction of traffic at the once all-powerful tech news site. The Infonaut believes that this drop is almost certainly due to the widespread proliferation of technology-focus blogs - there are just so many of them, that the average consumer is bound to hit up Engaget, Gizmodo or techmeme before CNET these days for a basic product scoop. Reviews are great, but the blogs’ aggregate velocity seems to appeal with particular appeal to the gadget-obssessed early adopter crowd. Bookmark to:          [...] [...] Today’s news about CNET’s mounting troubles include a bit about the drastic reduction of traffic at the once all-powerful tech news site. The Infonaut believes that this drop is almost certainly due to the widespread proliferation of technology-focus blogs - there are just so many of them, that the average consumer is bound to hit up Engaget, Gizmodo or techmeme before CNET these days for a basic product scoop. Reviews are great, but the blogs’ aggregate velocity seems to appeal with particular appeal to the gadget-obssessed early adopter crowd. Bookmark to:          [...]

]]> By: Tom http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270344 Tom Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:46:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270344 Nielsen Unique audience numbers for CNET.com past 12 months 5116 - Sept 06 7264 - Aug 06 5027 - July 06 6286 - June 06 5537 - May 06 5380 - April 06 5635 - March 06 5378 - Feb 06 6078 - Jan 06 6355 - Dec 05 6315 - Nov 05 6047 - Oct 05 5925 - Sep 05 Nielsen Unique audience numbers for CNET.com past 12 months

5116 - Sept 06
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]]> By: Sophie http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270173 Sophie Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:06:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-270173 Your comments on CNET's issues make me feel like a site like Blabbit (http://www.blabbit.com) will definitely have a chance to get the people looking for recommendations by their peers in a way that's easy and uncluttered. Thanks! Your comments on CNET’s issues make me feel like a site like Blabbit (http://www.blabbit.com) will definitely have a chance to get the people looking for recommendations by their peers in a way that’s easy and uncluttered. Thanks!

]]> By: Ted http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-269631 Ted Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:23:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-269631 "But rapidly declining page views point to a less than exciting future for the company." This comment shows a poor understanding of how real companies measure their business. Pageviews are important for advertising inventory, but the metric that matters in the long run is UNIQUE USERS. "And recent data suggests that CNET’s overall traffic isn’t just flat" I would argue that unique users is a better measure of "traffic" than pageviews. “But rapidly declining page views point to a less than exciting future for the company.”

This comment shows a poor understanding of how real companies measure their business. Pageviews are important for advertising inventory, but the metric that matters in the long run is UNIQUE USERS.

“And recent data suggests that CNET’s overall traffic isn’t just flat”

I would argue that unique users is a better measure of “traffic” than pageviews.

]]> By: TM http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-269274 TM Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:42:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-269274 It will be interesting to see how CNET handles their acquisitions (and brand) in the coming year. Recent acquisitions (like UrbanBaby, May '06) show they are attempting to stop the bleeding traffic through buying up niche communities. They are smart to look for traffic outside of the tech-centered world through recent acquisitions, because brands like UrbanBaby are solid and their readers are very loyal. Time will tell if they will be able to let their acquired brands continue to grow independently without watering down their new brands. The stock option scandal is a little unsettling, but I'm a big CNET fan and think they'll come through in great shape. They gave us http://www.DrMOZ.com a great review last year so I may slanted: http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-5985910.html?tag=tb It will be interesting to see how CNET handles their acquisitions (and brand) in the coming year. Recent acquisitions (like UrbanBaby, May ‘06) show they are attempting to stop the bleeding traffic through buying up niche communities. They are smart to look for traffic outside of the tech-centered world through recent acquisitions, because brands like UrbanBaby are solid and their readers are very loyal. Time will tell if they will be able to let their acquired brands continue to grow independently without watering down their new brands.

The stock option scandal is a little unsettling, but I’m a big CNET fan and think they’ll come through in great shape. They gave us http://www.DrMOZ.com a great review last year so I may slanted:
http://news.com.com/2061-10801.....tml?tag=tb

]]> By: » Blog Archive » Ogle at That - II: The Community Divide? http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-268389 » Blog Archive » Ogle at That - II: The Community Divide? Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:09:07 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-268389 [...] This video and several other discussions out there following YouTube’s acquisition by Google, raise an interesting line of thought. Since the popularity of sites such as YouTube is primarily driven by its fervently devoted user base, and it is this popularity and captive eyeball base that made it the target of such a lucrative deal, what gives for the community? Flickr and Digg too ought to mull over this. Obviously it isn’t possible to pay out a certain sum to every user. But perhaps to say their top 1000, or most popular contributors who’ve been ‘herding’ the traffic over to the site? This may not seem so far-fetched, when you consider, that according to this Techcrunch story, CNET’s traffic is declining at an alarmingly swift rate, not insignificantly due to: …tech blogs eating up many page views that would otherwise go to them, and new social networking and other sites eating into Webshots and other CNET properties. [...] [...] This video and several other discussions out there following YouTube’s acquisition by Google, raise an interesting line of thought. Since the popularity of sites such as YouTube is primarily driven by its fervently devoted user base, and it is this popularity and captive eyeball base that made it the target of such a lucrative deal, what gives for the community? Flickr and Digg too ought to mull over this. Obviously it isn’t possible to pay out a certain sum to every user. But perhaps to say their top 1000, or most popular contributors who’ve been ‘herding’ the traffic over to the site? This may not seem so far-fetched, when you consider, that according to this Techcrunch story, CNET’s traffic is declining at an alarmingly swift rate, not insignificantly due to: …tech blogs eating up many page views that would otherwise go to them, and new social networking and other sites eating into Webshots and other CNET properties. [...]

]]> By: mike http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-267851 mike Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:56:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-267851 This article is suspicious.. comming from an up and comming blogger. CNET's job is not running a rumor mill like these blogs. Blogs are 'cool' and have some interesting information, but they do not have any real journalistic or product review credential. I noticed that CNET has consolidated their traffic to single pages, so that there is less clicking around which made it seem like there were more hits in the past.. In fact we dont really know how many hits cnet really generates from using Comscore... look at the Alexa rating for example.... Cnet is doing well, in fact traffic has been higher than ever in 2006 than any other year... OK>. so Im dorking out on these web traffic facts. Look man.. I read your blog, but it is just hype media, that is all I read it for... you have no real credibility in comparison to CNET... you dont do any product reviews. Blogs like these just write about 'cool' little technologies and latest widgets and news... But its not actually helpful.. you don't describe how something actually works, you do not have videos displaying the products. Sorry, but it seems arrogant for a little blog like this to start harping on a company like CNET that many have depended on for years to get much information from.. I happen to like CNET because they carry the torch of the original dot com spirit in the sense that they never got bought out, they still somehow pull it off. So little blogs like this should respect that. Engadget used to downplay CNET as sell outs... well look who got bought out by AOL.. respect... you suckers.. l will still visit your blog. This article is suspicious.. comming from an up and comming blogger.

CNET’s job is not running a rumor mill like these blogs. Blogs are ‘cool’ and have some interesting information, but they do not have any real journalistic or product review credential. I noticed that CNET has consolidated their traffic to single pages, so that there is less clicking around which made it seem like there were more hits in the past.. In fact we dont really know how many hits cnet really generates from using Comscore… look at the Alexa rating for example…. Cnet is doing well, in fact traffic has been higher than ever in 2006 than any other year…

OK>. so Im dorking out on these web traffic facts. Look man.. I read your blog, but it is just hype media, that is all I read it for… you have no real credibility in comparison to CNET… you dont do any product reviews. Blogs like these just write about ‘cool’ little technologies and latest widgets and news… But its not actually helpful.. you don’t describe how something actually works, you do not have videos displaying the products. Sorry, but it seems arrogant for a little blog like this to start harping on a company like CNET that many have depended on for years to get much information from..

I happen to like CNET because they carry the torch of the original dot com spirit in the sense that they never got bought out, they still somehow pull it off. So little blogs like this should respect that. Engadget used to downplay CNET as sell outs… well look who got bought out by AOL.. respect… you suckers.. l will still visit your blog.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266959 Patrick Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:22:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266959 That's great news for you Michael! I can see the headlines: TechCrunch squashes Cnet ! keep up the good work! That’s great news for you Michael!

I can see the headlines: TechCrunch squashes Cnet !

keep up the good work!

]]> By: James Harriot http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266852 James Harriot Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:34:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266852 got the link wrong again! <a href="http://www.crowdstorm.com" title="social shopping" rel="nofollow">crowdstorm</a> got the link wrong again! crowdstorm

]]> By: James Harriot http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266851 James Harriot Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:33:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266851 I wonder if the traffic is starting to go to social shopping and tech sites like <a href="www.crowdstorm.com" title="social shopping" rel="nofollow">crowdstorm</a>. The difference is that you then have 1000's of people contributing comments, reviews, and videos, as opposed to a small selection of editors. I wonder if the traffic is starting to go to social shopping and tech sites like crowdstorm. The difference is that you then have 1000’s of people contributing comments, reviews, and videos, as opposed to a small selection of editors.

]]> By: Oskar Syahbana http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266548 Oskar Syahbana Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:34:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266548 Mike, it would be better if you cite where you got your facts rather than just credit it as "recent data" Mike, it would be better if you cite where you got your facts rather than just credit it as “recent data”

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266402 Andy Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:27:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266402 CNET would be a good acquisition for Google. Google currently does not offer price comparison, technology product reviews, or downloading service. CNET would make a good complimentary site to Google's dominating search engine. Yahoo Tech is gaining traction in the space... CNET needs to do some serious competitive analysis and respond quickly... just a thought. CNET would be a good acquisition for Google. Google currently does not offer price comparison, technology product reviews, or downloading service. CNET would make a good complimentary site to Google’s dominating search engine. Yahoo Tech is gaining traction in the space… CNET needs to do some serious competitive analysis and respond quickly… just a thought.

]]> By: PJ Kix > Hi-tek / Lo-life » Blog Archive » Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266362 PJ Kix > Hi-tek / Lo-life » Blog Archive » Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:57:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266362 [...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic Comscore [...] [...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic Comscore [...]

]]> By: Jitendra http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266318 Jitendra Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:26:33 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266318 I still visit CNET every so often...It seems like they do are no longer fresh and relevant...Also they really need to redesign the site as its way to complex and cluttered. I still visit CNET every so often…It seems like they do are no longer fresh and relevant…Also they really need to redesign the site as its way to complex and cluttered.

]]> By: Marcel http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266178 Marcel Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:23:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-266178 techrepublic was also relaunched techrepublic was also relaunched

]]> By: Writing Home » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-14 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-265782 Writing Home » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-14 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:18:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-265782 [...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic (tags: cnet traffic marketing) [...] [...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » CNET Is Bleeding Traffic (tags: cnet traffic marketing) [...]

]]> By: Sherbeam http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-265607 Sherbeam Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:30:49 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/13/cnet-is-bleeding-traffic/#comment-265607 Unfortunate to hear that CNET has been losing traction, but not surprising. I used to turn to CNET almost religiously; especially for reviews and how-to's. At some point, it seemed that reviews and other content began petering out. I agree with those who point to citizen journalism having to some degree supplanting CNET. It wasn't until I heard of the relaunch of TechRepublic that I starting turning to them again...I hadn't even noticed that I had left. Maybe this will help draw others back as well. Unfortunate to hear that CNET has been losing traction, but not surprising. I used to turn to CNET almost religiously; especially for reviews and how-to’s. At some point, it seemed that reviews and other content began petering out.

I agree with those who point to citizen journalism having to some degree supplanting CNET.

It wasn’t until I heard of the relaunch of TechRepublic that I starting turning to them again…I hadn’t even noticed that I had left. Maybe this will help draw others back as well.

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