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Experts Exchange is borderline spam, to put it mildly. They hide the answer at the very end of an enormous scroll (of course after they try to sell you via a po

Experts Exchange is borderline spam, to put it mildly. They hide the answer at the very end of an enormous scroll (of course after they try to sell you via a pop-up). A reasonable user has no clue that the answer is on the page. When I have made it all the way down, I have received a quality solution perhaps 5 out of 500 times. Stack Overflow realized there was a quality problem with the existing tech Q&A services and ate their lunches. Ditto for Quora. Hopefully they can keep it up.

dmfdmf 16y ago
I always considered it spam. I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches. Moreover, given what I could read it didn't look anymore promising or valuable that the various sites that come up, discuss a problem to a dead-end with no resolution (usually posted by a clueless Microsoft "MVP"). No thanks.
- gstamp 16y ago
  ... I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches ... You may have missed the news about this plugin for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbd...
- emef 16y ago
  You can if you run Chrome. They just released an extension to do just this. (someone posted this on HN recently) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...
- deleted 16y ago
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joblessjunkie 16y ago
IIRC, there was a time when EE pages didn't provide any answer at all without registration. To keep their search ranking up, they'd show this hidden content to the Googlebot, but not to unregistered users. Google cried foul about this, and thus was the long scroll to an answer invented. EE's web site was never designed around giving the user an answer as quickly as possible. It has always been designed to maximize its tiny paid account conversion rate. That's a spam business model, no "borderline" about it.

dmfdmf 16y ago

I always considered it spam. I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches. Moreover, given what I could read it didn't look anymore promising or valuable that the various sites that come up, discuss a problem to a dead-end with no resolution (usually posted by a clueless Microsoft "MVP"). No thanks.

gstamp 16y ago
... I wish Google allowed me to globally exclude the domain from my searches ... You may have missed the news about this plugin for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbd...
emef 16y ago
You can if you run Chrome. They just released an extension to do just this. (someone posted this on HN recently) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...
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joblessjunkie 16y ago

IIRC, there was a time when EE pages didn't provide any answer at all without registration. To keep their search ranking up, they'd show this hidden content to the Googlebot, but not to unregistered users. Google cried foul about this, and thus was the long scroll to an answer invented. EE's web site was never designed around giving the user an answer as quickly as possible. It has always been designed to maximize its tiny paid account conversion rate. That's a spam business model, no "borderline" about it.