Disney will finally shut down Go.com

January 30, 2001 6:56 AM

Disney will finally shut down Go.com Guess I wasn't the only one to think Go was a bad idea. Ever since Disney started doing the Go thing, their Disney.com site went from useful to down-right nasty. They might as well have called it goaway.com. I just hope what they mean by streamlining is take away the crap and make this stuff useful. The move was praised by Wall Street analysts. "Good riddance"
posted by jdiaz (7 comments total)

i'm getting major schadenfreude here.
posted by Sean Meade at 7:16 AM on January 30, 2001

I know people who work (ED) at Go. Good people. Crappy site. I don't think this surprised anybody in the industry.
posted by Doug at 7:17 AM on January 30, 2001

Not happy for the people (I even took out a comment to the fact before posting) but happy to see the site die. I too am stuck in a job overdesigning a site which I'm sure is similarly doomed to failure. If only the big-wigs would realize that you don't have to do *everything*, just do something, and do it well.
posted by jdiaz at 7:24 AM on January 30, 2001

Does anyone know if the Infoseek directory is still in Go.Com somewhere?
posted by rcade at 8:42 AM on January 30, 2001

I liked it when it was just infoseek, but Disney ruined it with big nasty banner ads and an intermediary "search results" page that was just a bunch of irrelevant ads with your search criteria clumsily grafted onto "buy books about" or "get the lowest prices on".

man I hate it when they do that.
posted by ritualdevice at 11:57 AM on January 30, 2001

maybe things wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have that creepy onion head skat singing commercial. it made my 2 year old cry. not a good image for disney...
posted by jyoung at 4:54 PM on January 31, 2001

maybe things wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have that creepy onion head skat singing commercial. it made my 2 year old cry. not a good image for disney...
posted by jyoung at 4:55 PM on January 31, 2001