There is also an earlier cry baby article titled "Blekko Bans Experts Exchange....And No One Cares". Too funny!
http://www.experts-exchange.com/blogs/EE-Tech-News/B_3838-Bl...
Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
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Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#52Wow! I just read something on Expert Exchange and i didn't even have to pay any money! Expert Exchange is actually a legit company? I had no idea. I don't think i know anybody who's ever used it. Hell, i've never heard of anybody who's ever used Expert Exchange.
>Hell, i've never heard of anybody who's ever used Expert Exchange.
I was an expert there about, oh I don't know, 8 years ago¹ - I got a months free premium account for answering and getting X amount of points in a month. Next time I went back (in common with another commenter here) I couldn't generally access solutions despite having provided some of those solutions myself.
However, I did find that it was, when I joined, the best place to get in depth computing answers. My last question there was in 2009 and I still got a pretty useful answer. I've used it since for a couple of specific searches.
Having looked there once again it still looks like I might get useful answers there.
Sample of questions being asked now:
16/02/11 500 Google Maps to be placed in a MS... Tavasan65 0 PHP Scripting...
16/02/11 500 RHN registration AXISHK 0 Red Hat Linux
16/02/11 500 Multiple domain names, multiple... bradpink 0 Lotus Domino Email...
16/02/11 125 traceroute from Mac (Net Utility... squidzink 0 Apple Networking
16/02/11 500 Oracle SQL query updating the... jvera524 0 Microsoft Excel...
16/02/11 250 Regex to find relative filenames... crysallus 0 Regular Expressions
16/02/11 50 Simple scalar tool Tom3333 0 Programming...
16/02/11 500 Syncing Outlook Notes with iPhone 4 richeyd 0 iPhone
16/02/11 500 jquery thickbox tranaparent window ... dev09 0 JavaScript
16/02/11 500 NetApp SAN Choice pitchford 0 VMware*
StackOverflow started 12 years after Experts Exchange.
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1 - just looked it up via Google, 2001-06-06 was my join date apparently.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#53When the article didn't load, it took me a minute to remember I'd blacklisted experts exchange in my hosts file several years ago. Apparently I'm still not missing anything.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#54I plan on asking quora what "narky" means
Make sure you use a real fake name. Not a fake fake name.
or a Fake name... http://caterina.net/archive/000622.html
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#55Wait, forgot to mention that now that google created the chrome anti-google results plugin, expertsexchange is in trouble (missing hyphen there somewhere)
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#56Jees. Talk about sour grapes... If EE wants to know why they weren't picked for the Q&A site pow-wow while StackExchange and Quora were, they should look no further than themselves. Let's take a look at one of their current top answers: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Virus_and_Spyware/Anti-Virus... 30 day trial?! Subscribe now?! Who do they think they're kidding? Or really: who actually uses this thing? Before the o…
>...Or really: who actually uses this thing? ... The image I have always had of the userbase of EE is a middle aged vet wearing a vest with a lot of pins and smells of cigarettes who sits in his trailer on The Internet Forums answering computer questions such as "Which is better - a 3 1/2 inch floppy or 5 1/4 inch floppy" and is known to the other folks in the park as "The Computer Guy" His goto answer for anything b…
My father, and his father before him, were military veterans in their middle age.
I lived in a trailer park in Iowa when I was a kid.
Not sure why you think those are negative things.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#57Q: What makes Experts Exchange different from other Q&A sites on the Internet? A: Most of our nearly 3 million solutions revolve around specific technology questions, and the majority of those have a sense of urgency to them. Huh? How does this differ from StackOverflow? Other than, of course, that those answers are hidden behind a paywall. We switched to a premium model to keep out of the Venture Capital business (b…
By the way, if you scroll ALL the way down to the bottom of any question page you do see the best answer. Apparently they bank on the fact most people won't scroll that far and get discouraged by the "paywall" on the top. The Google crawler requires the text to be visible I've heard
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#58What I'd like to know is how does EE always show up so well in Google search results? Even when there are several better results to a particular technical search query EE always shows up near the top of Google's results.
I can't speak for anyone else's queries but from my perspective EE is just Google spam, and their "answers" aren't worth the HTTP traffic.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
>...Or really: who actually uses this thing? ... The image I have always had of the userbase of EE is a middle aged vet wearing a vest with a lot of pins and smells of cigarettes who sits in his trailer on The Internet Forums answering computer questions such as "Which is better - a 3 1/2 inch floppy or 5 1/4 inch floppy" and is known to the other folks in the park as "The Computer Guy" His goto answer for anything b…
No offense, but your imagination is pretty elitist.
Jesus christ relax.
Re: Expert Exchange gets narky after snub from Q/A site review
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
>...Or really: who actually uses this thing? ... The image I have always had of the userbase of EE is a middle aged vet wearing a vest with a lot of pins and smells of cigarettes who sits in his trailer on The Internet Forums answering computer questions such as "Which is better - a 3 1/2 inch floppy or 5 1/4 inch floppy" and is known to the other folks in the park as "The Computer Guy" His goto answer for anything b…
My father, and his father before him, were military veterans in their middle age. I lived in a trailer park in Iowa when I was a kid. Not sure why you think those are negative things.
Imagine John Goodman from Lebowski....
Frankly, that was the image I had in my head - I wasn't trying to offend or be negative. Maybe you're sensitive?