CNET gets a measure of revenge

The tech and Google-obsessed crowds have chewed over the Google-CNET dispute to the point of exhaustion. To briefly recap, Google has decided to blackball CNET reporters until July 2006 in retaliation for a story CNET wrote pointing out potential privacy issues with Google’s desktop search product. Now, in retaliation for Google’s talk-to-the-hand treatment, CNET appears to be using the search engine against itself. In every story about Google it has published in the past three weeks, CNET has added this disclaimer: “Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com