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CNET China to acquire appliance review site
My prediction about "reviews" sites being hot this year appears to have started in China. PaidContent is reporting that, "Beijing based IT portal Zol.com.cn (owned by CNET) plans to acquire appliance review website Ea3w.com. The acquisition is expected to be completed this quarter, Pacific Epoch reports. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. In October 2004, CNET Networks acquired ZOL for $15 million and photography website Fengniao for $1 million."
Sites like Reevoo and Soapadoo provide trusted reviews which I believe will be a core component of review sites moving forward. Either trust by the site owner or trust by friends. The Amazon, "anyone can review this item" model will slowly fall out as it is so easy to manipulate those reviews.
