3 ms·
That's what Experts Exchange was doing. Back in the days before Stack Overflow, EE was one of the hot places to go for answers to software engineering problems.
by glenneroo 10y ago
That's what Experts Exchange was doing. Back in the days before Stack Overflow, EE was one of the hot places to go for answers to software engineering problems. It was a free site for many years, then one day they decided to require a subscription to read the answers. Google still indexed the question, so that you would open up a EE link, only to be greeted with "the answer requires a subscription". Google allowed that for a number of years before finally deindexing their results, but it took bloody forever!
- dawnerd 10y agoIf I remember correctly EE had the real answers waaaaaay down on the page. They were banking on people not scrolling.
- pitay 10y agoFrom memory you could scroll to get the results IF it detected you clicked on a google search result to get there, otherwise the answers were not displayed.