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People were searching google for answers to their questions. EE hijacked the results with pages that hid the answers. That's how they were dicks. They intention

• codezero 13y ago
  Were the answers readily available elsewhere in most cases? If so, the main "wrong" done by EE was simply placing inaccessible results higher than otherwise accessible ones, which is pretty rubbish, but if instead, a bulk of the content was unavailable elsewhere, this doesn't seem that bad. I'm guessing it was more of the former though, lending to the general ire towards EE.
  • chrismcb 13y ago
    Generally you could find the answer elsewhere. They made it more difficult to find the answer's elsewhere, as they were generally in the top of any query. If it happened occasionally, it would be no big deal. But when it happened every single time, it gets frustrating. You have a deadline, and you have a problem that is already frustrating. Now you have to wade through EE results trying to find another site that has an answer.
    • radmuzom 13y ago
      Huh? You are making it sound that EE answer ranking highly in Google is EE's fault and not the Google search algorithm. I would argue that almost any useful programming question I search for has SO as the first link which is then "closed as not constructive". It is behavior even worse than EE - at least for EE, I knew that their pay-wall would block me.
  • normloman 13y ago
    Yes the answers were available elsewhere. And if EE hadn't resorted to scumbag-SEO, you'd have been able to find them sooner.