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Forbes.com sucks. Here's one reason why.

I followed a webclip link out of gmail today and it dropped me off at a news story on Forbes.com. I wanted to read this story. However, I was presented with something horrific. I was presented with the results of a tragic effort that I can only presume is a scheme to show as many "punch the monkey" advertisements as possible.

What is this scheme? Well. I landed on the page. This page had two average-length paragraphs. No sooner had I finished reading the first paragraph than the page reloaded and showed me another, new piece of text.

Six seconds later. A new page.

Repeat.

Turns out Forbes.com has some sort of slideshow they try to use to display stories. To make matters worse, there are advertisements everywhere. By the time I figured out what part of the page I was supposed to be looking at, it went to the next page. Sure, you can stop the slideshow, but I only found that out afterwards.

Thanks Forbes. I almost read one of your stories.

Clicky for an example article

Thumbnail screenshot of the page follows. Enjoy the massive amount of whitespace and adspace.


3 responses to 'Forbes.com sucks. Here's one reason why.'

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Lincoln wrote at Mon Jul 2 08:24:57 2007...
Forbes' web site is cluttered and has potential for improvement of readability. They should look to Time Magazine for reference.

Forblues wrote at Fri Sep 7 13:48:41 2007...
agreed...it sucks balls...i hope the stock falls at least 50% this year

Jack wrote at Wed Sep 12 05:34:55 2007...
Thanks to Google News, Forbes has been a thorn in my side for ages now.


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