CNET.com

Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
Name	CNET.com
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Url	cnet.com
Label2	Division of:
Owner	CBS Interactive
Alexa	86
Commercial	Yes
Type	Technology & Journalism
Registration	Optional
Launch date	March 5, 1994
Current status	Online
Slogan	"For a life gone digital"

CNET.com (stylized in lowercase as cnet) is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition in 2008. CNET originally produced content for radio and television in addition to its website and now uses new media distribution methods through CNET TV and its podcast and blog networks.

Content

CNET provides product reviews and prices, software downloads, and tech news. The editor in chief is Scott Ard. CNET has four main content sections: "Reviews", "News", "Downloads", and "Video". The Reviews section of the site is the largest part of the site, and generates over 4,300 product and software reviews per year. The Reviews section also features Editors’ Choice Awards, which recognize products that are particularly innovative and of the highest quality.

With a catalog of more than 400,000 titles, the Downloads section of the website — which allows users to download popular software — is also extremely popular, generating approximately 3.5 million downloads per day.

CNET News was launched in 1996, and was one of the first news sources to help define technology reporting in the age of the internet. CNET News has won several prestigious awards, including the National Magazine award.

CNET TV is home to a number of popular CNET programs and shows, such as Buzz Report, Loaded, Prizefight, Apple Byte, and CNET Car Tech.

CNET also creates some popular podcasts, such as Buzz Out Loud and The 404

History

In 1994, with the help from fox co-founder Kevin Wendle and former Disney creative associate Dan Baker, CNET produced four pilot television programs about computers, technology, and the Internet. CNET TV was composed of CNET Central, The Web, and The New Edge.CNET Central was created first and aired in syndication in the United States on the USA Network. Later, it began airing on USA's sister network Sci Fi Channel along with The Web and The New Edge.

In addition, CNET produced another television technology news program called News.com that aired on CNBC beginning in 1999. after CNET published Google's CEO Eric Schmidt's salary, named the neighbourhood where he lives, some of his hobbies and political donations. All the information had been gleaned from Google searches.

CNET got in trouble in 2007 after it was revealed by former Gamespot editors that CNET corporate staff had directed the firing of a Gamespot editor. Furthermore, CNET was involved in altering the strict editorial policies that Gamespot and CNET reviewing staff once had. Indeed, CNET was considered complicit in its support of products regardless of their quality.

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