experts exchange

Chess · Post by **Chess** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:53 am

Dann, I hate that site too.

Post by **dann** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:20 am

I don't want to begrudge Expert's Exchange, but man they make it tough. It's infuriating when you are looking for some information and the top lnks are to that site.

Hell, sure, if that is your bag to make a buck off of tech support like this, but it just gets too in my face.

martyskitch · Post by **martyskitch** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:43 am

Dann,
I hate that site too. Just get in the habit of excluding them from google searches and reduce the frustation of finding your problem only to have to pay for the answer.

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:05 am

honestly I have Googled for a lot of stuff and that site has never come up. It usually shows something from a mailing list, linuxquestions.org, the gentoo forums, or sometimes the gentoo wiki. Maybe Google just knows exactly what I want

btw martyskitch, how do you exclude search results? I think you can do it through the CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox but I use Konqueror

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:17 pm

Yes, I have the same experiences about this site as Dann mentioned.

Dann,
I email you on this topic.

ssch · Post by **ssch** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:26 am

Solaris: Memory usage on Solaris 8
I have a Sparc system with 768 MB, Solaris 8. It's an Oracle server. When I check the process status use top utility, I found it reports only 15M free ...
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operati ... 64673.html - 58k - In cache - Gelijkwaardige pagina's

I was listening to the episode #144 and I found out I'm not the only one wo hates http://www.experts-exchange.com.
The website should b called http://www.money-exchange.com.
Google should look in to how these bastards are always so high on the search list. And then ban them.

Anyway love the show. Great tech and playful bander.

hellonorman · Post by **hellonorman** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:45 am

I don't know how long ago was the last time but I always remember scrolling down past the "join now" logo and the answers were readable. I often click the google cache link so that the terms are highlighted I don't know if that made any difference.

Anyone have a recent search that included entries for that site?

ps

Even the link that ssch gives has the answer reply visible if you scroll down. I guess I'm confused as to why everyone hates it for google searches.

martyskitch · Post by **martyskitch** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:45 am

CptnObvious999 to exclude a site from a search just add the -site: in the google search box. YMMV

search items -site:www.experts-exchange.com

doublejoon · Post by **doublejoon** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:05 am

I created an account on EE over 4yrs ago......If i need to see a solution....I just log in....No $$$ at all......Did they change things with new accounts?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:12 am

If you click on google's cache of an experts-exchange page it will display more info. I'm not sure if that is the same page that the paid users get.

Example:
Normal Page
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operati ... 56486.html

Cached page
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:on ... =firefox-a

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:08 pm

Isnt that how to Google Answers works.

Hellmark · Post by **Hellmark** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:34 pm

doublejoon wrote:I created an account on EE over 4yrs ago......If i need to see a solution....I just log in....No $$$ at all......Did they change things with new accounts?

Yeah, several years ago they changed so that if you wanted to do anything on their site, you had to be a member, and they charge for membership now.

EDIT: Checked, and their "premium membership" (only thing they offer) is $10 a month, $50 for 6 months, or $100 a year.

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:14 pm

Hehe. Today I found expertsexchange.com listed as one of the " Top 10 Worst URL Flops".

http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/20 ... flops.html

It was up there with others like...

penisland.com
therapistfinder.com
gotahoe.com

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:53 pm

I just cooked up http://ignore-experts-exchange.com/, that lets you search Google and ignore them. There is a howto for Opera and Firefox, so you can just ignore them automatically.

I'm basically using the -site:experts-exchange.com. If a lot of people did that, Google might see it as a protest?

Btw. expertsexchange.com (without dash) does not seem to belong to belong to them, but if you put in a few spaces, you get expert sex change.com

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