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And no more bloody experts-exchange...
by foljs 16y ago
And no more bloody experts-exchange...
- shrikant 16y agoI honestly don't mind that site - about half the time I search for an issue, I find it's been resolved by someone over at Experts Exchange. Do people realise that if Google is your referrer, you can scroll all the way down and see the solutions to the question?
- duck 16y agoI have always known that, but I don't think a lot of people do. A while back I was working with a high dollar consultant who really thought he knew it all, but he seemed really surprised that I didn't need to use his Experts Exchange account to see the answer.
- nervechannel 16y agoIt didn't used to be like that -- you used to have to 'view source' to see it <facepalm> Then I think they went through a stage of not revealing it at all. But in any case, it's far less useful than SO/SF etc.
- hessenwolf 16y agoDepends on what you are doing. I sold out to greysuitland and ee is better for all my retarded vb, vba, c# questions.
- jawns 16y agoIt seems like every few months, EE tries to cloak its site in a new way ... then Google catches them and they revert to merely misleading people (by putting the answers several page-scrolls down) into thinking that they need to pay to see the answers. Actually, I sort of sympathize with the predicament EE faces. They want to show up high on Google search results, because that's how they get new customers ... but they don't want to give away their content for free. Here's an opportunity for a search engine start-up: Allow users to search (by default) for only free content -- but also allow them to search, if they so choose, for content that's behind a paywall. Pay-for-access sites would love something like this.
- nervechannel 16y agoActually, I sort of sympathize with the predicament EE faces. They want to show up high on Google search results, because that's how they get new customers ... but they don't want to give away their content for free. I have no sympathy at all for them. All the answers are community-generated for free, aren't they? So they're trying to charge for other people's generosity. And plenty of sites on the web give away better content than theirs for free, with no attempt to trick people into paying. Their business model is broken and I'm surprised they've lasted this long.
- Sandman 16y agoI thought that the experts that answered the questions got paid? Guess I was wrong...
- codemonger 16y agoIf you use the cached text version of the EE page you find, you can get through the pay wall.
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoexpert sexchange was the first one I was thinking of blocking too.