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List the crappiest websites you know here. (warning: potentially NSFW)

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Krishean:
weather.com, if you view source on any of their pages its apparent they have a horde of programmers that have no idea what they are doing, its a mish-mash of coding styles all cobbled together, and its a wonder it loads at all

they should fire their entire programming staff and hire a team of monkeys, their pages would load faster and contain less 3rd party code

edit: it looks like they have switched most things to yahoo-ui, but its still a mess, they have a ridiculous amount of extra newlines, and the code formatting is terrible, there might as well be no formatting at all

wraith808:
Experts-exchange you can see the answers if you visit the site via google search results. Some are actually good but as far as 'business model' goes it's pretty much anti-spirit-of-internet
-rgdot (August 30, 2010, 09:19 PM)
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Does that still work?  I'd read somewhere that this was because of the way that google cached the site, but they'd complained and google stopped caching certain sites.

A bad site in my view is something like godaddy.com, when trying to buy or manage a domain, a mish mash of extra options and extra screens just to get to where you want to go.
-rgdot (August 30, 2010, 09:19 PM)
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That doesn't bother me because they put a button there to stop annoying you and go to checkout.

app103:
Experts-exchange you can see the answers if you visit the site via google search results. Some are actually good but as far as 'business model' goes it's pretty much anti-spirit-of-internet
-rgdot (August 30, 2010, 09:19 PM)
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Does that still work?  I'd read somewhere that this was because of the way that google cached the site, but they'd complained and google stopped caching certain sites.
-wraith808 (August 31, 2010, 06:25 AM)
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They got slapped by Google for cloaking. In order to stay in the index, they have to show Google users the same page that gets shown to the Googlebot.

You can also reach the full content if you change your browser's useragent to match that of the Googlebot. (firefox users can do that easily with this) This means you can bookmark pages and go back to them later, and see the same thing you did the first time.

Josh:
Has anyone seen this "Donation Coding" website? I believe the website address is www.donationcoder.com

 ;)  :-* :-* :-*

mrainey:
Experts-exchange you can see the answers if you visit the site via google search results. Some are actually good but as far as 'business model' goes it's pretty much anti-spirit-of-internet

Does that still work?  I'd read somewhere that this was because of the way that google cached the site, but they'd complained and google stopped caching certain sites.
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