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I really didn't care much about the google spamming if by some magic they managed to get me right answers. The only problem with EE is that I couldn't get anyth

I really didn't care much about the google spamming if by some magic they managed to get me right answers. The only problem with EE is that I couldn't get anything from their spam, only links to pay for the answer. SO solved this problem by making it free. You could ask questions for free as well. I don't know if SO tries to game google, but their answers are pretty close to the top results most of the time. I don't mind, because they are usually relevant.

andy_adams 13y ago
Depending on when you visited, you'd probably need to scroll to the bottom of the page to get the answer and/or visit the cached version of the page. Annoying, yes. Worthy of scorn? That's up for debate. SO ate EE's lunch on the SEO front, to be sure. And I agree with Google that SO offers better experience for searchers, so I'm glad they're winning that battle.
- jaggederest 13y ago
  It's worthy of scorn. There's no debate here. You're trying to bail out the tide with an apologia for a pretty universally disliked company.
- chrismcb 13y ago
  You keep saying that they weren't really worthy of scorn, and yet they were fairly scorned industry wide BEFORE stackoverflow came into existed. So, yeah, obviously they did things that people disliked. I never saw a "kill EE" campaign. Yes, SO wanted to "not be EE," because everyone hated EE. I don't think a lot of people decided to hate EE because SO said to, they hated EE because of EE's practices. Did EE change their practices? Perhaps, but it was too soo, too late. And I never found out, because I blocked them as soon as I could.
- Marazan 13y ago
  Annoying, yes. Deliberately designed to be annoying? Yes. Worthy of scorn? I think so.