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While 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.

by fname 16y ago

dpifke 16y ago
That 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 ago
  So, 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 ago
    That 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 ago
It'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".
- deleted 16y ago
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- dhruvbird 16y ago
  I 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 ago
    FYI: 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...

While 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.

by fname 16y ago

While 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 ago

That 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 ago
So, 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 ago
  That 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 ago

It'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 ago
I 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 ago
  FYI: 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...