September 15, 2000

7:55 AM

New Go?Either Go.com really, really sucks, or I am just unable to find where the "new" go.com design is residing. And why doesn't c|net ever put related links in their articles? Do they assume I will just stay within c|net all day long?
posted by Brilliantcrank (12 comments total)

And for another example of a turd morphing into a bigger piece of crap -- xoom.com just merged with snap.com and became the iNBC portal.
posted by nikzhowz at 8:19 AM on September 15, 2000

the new go reminds me of the new AltaVista -- lots and lots of links on the main page.
posted by milnak at 8:24 AM on September 15, 2000

They finally realized that their biggest competative advantage is being part of Disney, check the font on the new logo. The previous was horrible, I can't believe they stuck with that patch-job-after-a-lawsuit logo for so long.

I hate the all-black header, too. *hiss hiss, scratch*
posted by billpena at 8:28 AM on September 15, 2000

That's not the new Go. That's the same old Go.
posted by aaron at 11:34 AM on September 15, 2000

The new GO logo looks like a cross between the Disney logo and the ESPN logo. Something done by the computer graphics people at Conan O'Brian's "If they mated" segment.
posted by tamim at 1:10 PM on September 15, 2000

I believe this is the "new, improved, more intuitive" Go:

http://beta.go.com/

Um. Yeah.
posted by fraying at 2:58 PM on September 15, 2000

Next up for the new Go.com: Disney creates a pair of squabbling sidekicks for the site...
posted by jhiggy at 3:20 PM on September 15, 2000

...or three adorable cartoon nephews, Bo, Jo and Mo!
posted by wendell at 3:59 PM on September 15, 2000

The new Go.com looks like the new Espn.com.

What's the deal with that ESPNesque large non standard ad on top of the right column?
posted by tamim at 6:00 PM on September 15, 2000

my god. what a mess!
posted by brian at 7:29 AM on September 16, 2000

I've been chatting at GO (or WBS in the good ol' days) since 1996. The ad is undoubtedly evil, and gives the impression of clean family values, but is really run by those evil fascist Disney freaks. The worst thing are the rules - you can get kicked off for no apparent reason, you can't swear, can't post "questionable" pictures. Since ESPN is now part of GO, ads are shown on ESPN during NASCAR races, etc. I always wondered why there were all these idiots in the chat room all of a sudden...the ads are the reason!
posted by LeafQueen at 4:59 AM on September 17, 2000

Remember when people used to think that this page was cluttered?
posted by milnak at 2:02 PM on September 18, 2000