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PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites

Cilibrin writes "PC World has posted a story on the 25 dumbest dot-coms and silliest sites. Among those to make the list are the pet-related Neuticles — a site for testicular implants for pets — and every child's favorite, Rabies for Kids." From the article: "As venture capitalists scramble to throw money at anything labeled Ajax or Web 2.0, and Web publishing becomes so simple that anyone with a working mouse hand can put up a site, we offer our list of the 25 worst Web sites of all time. Many of our bottom 25 date from the dot-com boom, when no bad idea went unfunded. Some sites were outright scams — at least two of our featured Net entrepreneurs spent some time in the pokey. Others are just examples of bad design, or sites that got a little too careless with users' information, or tried to demand far too much personal data for too little benefit. And to prove we're not afraid to pick on somebody much bigger than us, our pick for the worst Web site may be the hottest cyberspot on the planet right now. "

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  1. Glass houses... by Griim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best part is PCWorld's site sucks.

    I don't know what their minimum requirement is, but I don't like to maximize my browser window, so I can see what's going on in the background. I have a large screen though, so most sites will fit in a window that's roughly 1024 across...not this site though!

    And who doesn't love an article that's broken down into at least 5 separate pages? I know there's nothing I love more than clicking and waiting 5 times, just to read a single article.

  2. Re:Not enough silly by Gamefreak99 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BonziBuddy is about as silly as the Spawn of Satan.

  3. Windows Update? by raezr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never known anyone to have trouble with it. How is it difficult to click the "update" button and let it do everything for you?

    This sounds more like a lame attempt to bash "Micro$oft" yet again.

  4. Re: myspace by NoTheory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I say this as someone who both loathes myspace, and has an account (granted w/o any information filled in), but how is signing up for a myspace account resistance? The problem with moshi conceptually, is that people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to. I guess i just fail to see how moshi encourages people to be better. Even if you give a proof of concept, that doesn't mean that anybody is going to jump on the bandwagon.

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  5. Re:The full list by rahmza · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but the worst website I have ever seen has to be http://hosanna1.com/

  6. Re: myspace by FireFury03 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    people don't care whether their code or their CSS is kosher, they just care that it looks the way they want it to.

    Also, the way they want it to look is often terrible - most of the MySpace sites are either completely unreadable because of some background the site owner has decided to apply, or just plain annoying because they've decided that absolutely everyone must hear their favorite piece of music so they push it upon you as soon as you open the page.

    From what I can see, the one good thing MySpace has done is group a large amount of crap in one place so it's easier to avoid.

    (And I'm not even going to get started on the number of MySpace people who have taken to whoring my bandwidth by linking full size 6MP photos off my web server as their background images without permission).