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Experts Exchange needs to die in a fire. They're the reason I wish Google had a 'never show results from domain X' feature. This graph makes me very, very happy
by audiodude 17y ago
Experts Exchange needs to die in a fire. They're the reason I wish Google had a 'never show results from domain X' feature. This graph makes me very, very happy.
- mjhnghfh 17y ago"search term -site:experts-exchange.com"
- j2d2 17y agoYes!
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agoI searched google help for how to block a website from google results. ALL complaints were because of experts exchange. I don't know if anyone voluntarily goes to EX. SO I go to regularly. Check for how many requests a single user does to EX. Basically a person might go to EX's 3 or 4 pages in a day by accident then never again if possible. A unique ip is not a good factor.
- devicenull 17y agoThe CustomizeGoogle FF extension lets you do this.
- bhseo 17y agohttp://www.optimizegoogle.com/ http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ Since the CustomizeGoogle extension is no longer updated, I suggest trying the new OptimizeGoogle extension that has taken over the former's responsibilities. It really is one of my favourites. You can filter URLs from the results. Flushes the Google cookie but remembers my settings. I recommend it to everyone that uses Google.
- colinprince 17y agoThese days it's OptimizeGoogle http://www.optimizegoogle.com http://www.optimizegoogle.com
- yesimahuman 17y agoNot voluntarily, but would I be out of place saying that I've actually used some of the information on the EX hits, and they have helped me? That's not to say I didn't wish the answers were on StackOverflow instead though.
- techiferous 17y ago"ALL complaints were because of experts exchange." Really? None for Yahoo! Answers? :)
- po 17y agoMy friend was paying EE for their service and moderately happy with it until I showed him how they display the answers publicly after the scroll barrier of google originated requests (and not others). His response was something along the lines of "why those little..." He promptly cancelled his subscription with them. The fact is that the only reason they rank highly at all is by cheating google's indexer and using a cheap psychological trick. Their business model is naiveté. Once you point it out to their customer base, they will quit the service.
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- AgentConundrum 17y agoHow have I never figured this out before? It seems so obvious in retrospect. I have keyword searches setup in Firefox for StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser, but I hated getting blog and meta results in my StackOverflow searches. This will help in a big way. Much appreciated!
- Tuna-Fish 17y ago> They're the reason I wish Google had a 'never show results from domain X' feature. They do. -site:experts-exchange.com To avoid typing that into all the search boxes, just modify the query string for google that you use to search for with the search box/keyword for searching in the url bar. I have that and a couple of dozen others in the "g" keyword in my url bar.
- jdavid 17y agoFTW, this is an awesome tip. Can one alter the google address bar?
- Tuna-Fish 17y agoIf by that you mean the search field in a google page, yes you can, for example with a greasemonkey script. However, I see little point in that -- searching from the location bar just seems easier to me. CTRL-t gets you a new tab with focus in the location bar from anywhere, and I don't have to wait for any page to load to type in the query. Even if google is fast, it's still not as fast. Also, you can set up other easy searches. For example, stuff I have used in the past 2 hours: - gis (google image search) - gfi (google finance) - listof (google I feel lucky, site:wikipedia.org with search string "list of %s")
- zackattack 17y agoEasier with Firefox smart keywords http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html
- joegaudet 17y agoThanks, this is a great bit of news. I hate experts exchange, they are against everything I personally believe with regards to helping people, and our roles as technical professionals.
- timmorgan 17y agoExperts Exchange is actually a decent resource once you realize you can scroll to the bottom of the page to get the answer. Yes, I realize their tactics are nasty, but for all those answers to simply disappear from the web would be a shame. Ideal would be for Stack Overflow to buy them out and import all their existing content.
- dustingetz 17y agodid you look at the traffic graph? SO overtook EE and is still growing--no incentive to buy them. SO users will replicate the content anyway.
- timmorgan 17y agoEventually, perhaps. But I happen to know there is A LOT of Microsoft SQL Server and MS Exchange help on there that can be found no where else -- well, at least nowhere outside of a 100 page technet article of some of the deepest technicalese you have ever read. And what's to say Stack Overflow won't become like EE some day, and start holding answers hostage? EE wasn't always this way you know... [edit: I realize this is a completely different line of thinking -- it just popped into my head]
- alexfarran 17y ago> And what's to say Stack Overflow won't become like EE some day, and start holding answers hostage? Joel and Jeff have explicitly tackled that issue in the podcast, with reference to IMDB and CDDB as well as "the hyphen site". All the user generated content on Stack Overflow is licensed under cc-wiki and available as an anonymised data dump. http://bit.ly/cGWxT5 http://bit.ly/cGWxT5
- dustingetz 17y agoright, but if/when they take VC funding they start down a path leading to loss of control, and a future CEO may lock future contributions.
- hackernews 17y agoIf you are using Firefox, the CustomizeGoogle add-on will allow you to block listings from search results: http://www.customizegoogle.com/ http://www.customizegoogle.com/
- strooltz 17y agoEE and Nabble...
- Mark_B 17y agoAgreed, but with auto filtering preferred over the plugin/search box minus method.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoFWIW, Duck Duck Go does not show their results.
- gojomo 17y agoIs that just a practical decision, based on the fact that users who visit with a DuckDuckGo referrer don't see the meat of the answer? (If ExEx treated DDG visitors the same as Google visitors -- showing the answer after a long scroll barrier -- then what?)
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoI actually banned them before I knew they weren't showing me any answers.
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