转载:航嘉欲贿赂国外媒体被曝光

不得不佩服hardware secret的编辑的坚持原则的立场，航嘉大约是在国内用惯了这种思维放在国外去结果碰了一鼻子灰，也不由感叹国内的媒体的良心该好好拯救一下了。国内媒体，就不指名了，免得麻烦，其实有几家明眼人一看就知道收黑钱的文章大把，象微型计算机那样较公正的算少有的了，为什么说是较公正，因为他不会象hardware secret一样，能把如此尖锐的问题提出来评论的，大多是一些不蕴不火的小问题。如果国人能少放点心思在麻将、内部斗争上，象德国人一样，在业余生活中多关注一点技术上的东西，相信现在流行的各种忽悠的市场也会小很多了！

原文BLOG：http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/blog/113

CNBETA译文：

12月26日,日前国外硬件评测网站(hardwaresecrets.com)编辑在其公司博客上披露电源制造企业航嘉试图以投放广告的方式,要求该网站撤下有关其产品的评测稿件.
航嘉成立于1995年,是从事电源供应器和电源系统开发、设计、制造及销售一体化的专业电源服务商,总部设在深圳,拥有目前中国大陆最大的PC电源生产基地.
以下是Hardware Secret博客文章:

今天我们收到了一封关于此事的电子邮件.正好在我们刊登了对航嘉Green Star 450W的评价之后.航嘉与我联系说,他们希望我们删除关于其产品的负面消息,并会因此在Hardware Secrets网站投放广告.

首先,我们的评价是完全不带偏见的,不会接受任何商业贿赂.不会因为接受企业的钱财而改变我们原先写好的文章和广告.以前我们报道的客户的消息是完全没有偏见的.大家也知道,我们的编辑内容必须公正的.否则,当我们说某一产品好时,读者永远不会相信我们.我们的文章和评论完全尊重事实而不受制造商干涉.

不幸的是,我们知道一些出版机构及互联网单位做着各种各样的肮脏交易, 例如,如果生产商与他们做广告,就会撰文赞美该企业.为了“和制造商保持良好合作关系”,绝不会出现该企业的负面消息.这种现象出现在世界各地,也被称为 “贿赂”.但我们不会这样做,也不赞成其他出版媒体这样做,也不会尊重那样的企业,因为人们现在已经开始怀疑任那些只说溢美之词的出版媒体了.

显然,在这种情况下,航嘉也许认为我们也和那些网站一样,可以通过广告消除企业负面消息.

更有趣的是,他们说我们的消息和其他网站的消息一点也不一样.那么,除了上面我们给出的解释,我们的观点和其他网站的消息是不能相比的.

真正认真的企业会通过负面评价去修正自己的产品.但是这些企业却在通过各种手段去消除那些说真话的评论.

视频:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F ... s.com/article/672/8

原文：
Huntkey Tries to Bribe Hardware Secrets
Author: Gabriel Torres Date: December 23, 2008 - 12:23 PM PST

I completely forgot to comment this with you. This story happened a while ago, but today I’ve got a new e-mail from them about the same subject. Right after I posted the Huntkey Green Star 450 W review Huntkey contacted me saying that they would like me to take down the review and that they would start advertising on Hardware Secrets.

But one thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. First we are completely unbiased: we do not accept any kind of financial compensation for writing our articles and our advertisement contracts aren’t bind to the publishing of any kind of article about the advertiser. This is so true that sometimes we publish negative reviews about products from our advertisers (e.g. OCZ ProXStream 1,000 W) and they know that our editorial content must be unbiased, otherwise our readers will never believe in us when we say that a given product is good. Our articles and reviews are completely spontaneous and the results do not have any sort of interference from the manufacturers.

Unfortunately we know several publications, both inside and outside the internet, that do all sorts of dirty business, like charging for publishing an article, charging for giving an award seal, publish an article only if the manufacturer advertises with them, and not publishing negative reviews in order “to keep a good relationship with the manufacturer”. These are just some examples of biasing that happens all around the world, a.k.a. “payola” (read this excellent article exposing this) – and you, our critic reader, should start paying attention to the websites you read. We don’t do anything like this and we repudiate publications that do it (we simply cannot respect this kind of publication). Start suspecting of any publication that only tells good things about all products they review and never writes a single negative line.

Apparently on this case maybe Huntkey thought we were one of these websites that accept removing bad articles in exchange of advertisement.

The funniest thing was that they said our results were very different from the results achieved by other publications. Well, besides what I already explained above, there is simply no way to compare our power supply reviews to these lousy reviews posted all over the web, where the guy gets a 450 W power supply installs on a PC that is pulling 150 W and says that the power supply is amazing. With the first Huntkey review we posted we bought a second unit and the results were absolutely the same. According to Jon Gerow, founder of JonnyGURU, Huntkey power supplies are known in the industry for having a real wattage of 100 W below their labeled wattage.

It is really funny how some companies instead of being worried about improving the quality from their products try to vanish with the reviews that tell the truth about them. All serious companies use negative reviews to fix their products.