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On a similar note, how is the expert sex change site still in your index? They very clearly are serving different content to the crawler (as evidenced by the "
by dpifke 16y ago
On a similar note, how is the expert sex change site still in your index? They very clearly are serving different content to the crawler (as evidenced by the "cached" link) than they are to people who click through on the SERPs. I though this was a big no-no?
For an example (which was submitted as search feedback a month ago), try searching for "XMPP load balancing" and look at the third organic link.
(Edit: actually, in that case it appears they're using JavaScript to hide the indexed content. Same effect, however: the cache link shows the "solution" but clicking the search result displays an ad.)
- fname 16y agoWhile I'm not a fan of that site either, it's not true -- scroll to the bottom of the page. Sneaky? Absolutely, but the content and solution is there.
- dpifke 16y agoThat used to be the case, but the complete page as it appears in Firefox to me now: http://i.imgur.com/Lw0Mh.png http://i.imgur.com/Lw0Mh.png. The indexed content is blurred out and there's a big ad overlaying it, with no close button or other method to display the content, other than the Google cache link.
- fname 16y agoSo, here's the difference that I found. If you're coming from Google SERPs (the referrer is Google) the answer is shown near the bottom. If you copy and paste the link into a browser (empty referrer) I get the results you show in your screenshot.
- dpifke 16y agoThat screenshot was most definitely taken with Google as the HTTP referer. (I'm too lazy to cut-and-paste the URL from the search page into the browser, I just clicked the link.) Clicking the link again shows the additional content at the bottom of the page as you described. So there's some other algorithm at play.
- roc 16y agoIt's no longer true. Short version is: they used to, and got busted for, serving answers to the spiders and ads and pitches to the surfers. So now they show the answer at the bottom of a pile of ads and pitches. But they still suck. Horribly. And are the number one example I hear when people say "I wish Google would let me blacklist domains".
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- dhruvbird 16y agoI don't believe no one has created a FF plugin for expert sex change (yet)!! Edit: Even a GM script to remove all the leading spammy divs would do...
- lamnk 16y agoFYI: On Chrome you have Search Engine Blacklist https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbckmoknagndlhjbeohb https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbck... On Firefox you can use the filter option of Optimize Google https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/optimizegoogle/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/optimizegoogl...
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoAs your edit indicates, when we've looking into Experts Exchange, they weren't cloaking--they were showing the same content to users that they show to Googlebot. If they were cloaking, that would be a violation of our guidelines and thus grounds for removal from our search results.
- TillE 16y agoViolation of the spirit rather than the letter of the law, surely. Which would indicate that the guidelines probably need to be tweaked to close such loopholes.