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Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

#3
Good. ExpertSexChange.com is just awful, with their "must be registered to see this answer" BS. I always groan aloud whenever I accidentally click on a link in Google search results, since it's just a waste of my time. And, of course, I go right back to searching.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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post #3

Good. ExpertSexChange.com is just awful, with their "must be registered to see this answer" BS. I always groan aloud whenever I accidentally click on a link in Google search results, since it's just a waste of my time. And, of course, I go right back to searching.

You might already know this, but I believe the answer is always on the landing page. You just have to scroll all the way down. They put enough crap on the top of the page to make you think you have to login.

The site is still lame though ;)

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Do the figures for ExpertSexChange include those people who clicked on it from Google then went back to searching again after finding out that you need to pay/login?

If that is the case, ExpertSexChange is in bad shape than what the stat suggests.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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I'd say catching, but not eating away. There's nothing in this graph that suggests market share is being taken away.

decrease in monthly uniques (-2.69%) against continued strong growth (10.70%)? The overall market is growing because there are two (2M visitors/month combined, vs 900k a year ago). But the mix has steadily changed. If that's not market share loss, what is it?

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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post #5
post #3

Good. ExpertSexChange.com is just awful, with their "must be registered to see this answer" BS. I always groan aloud whenever I accidentally click on a link in Google search results, since it's just a waste of my time. And, of course, I go right back to searching.

You might already know this, but I believe the answer is always on the landing page. You just have to scroll all the way down. They put enough crap on the top of the page to make you think you have to login. The site is still lame though ;)

That must be new (like in the past couple of years). I've been trained out of considering it worth scrolling down. I usually click the back button before the page even finishes loading...it's pretty much instant. I look up to the URL bar, realize where it's taking me, I say something nasty and curse their mothers, and click the back button. The whole process takes about a second.

Now that you mention it, I seem to recall reading about Google cracking down on that kind of thing, and sites like Experts Exchange changing in order to keep their ranking.

So, Google may forgive them, but my hatred diminishes more slowly.

In other words, "may they rot in hell, or at least decline in popularity until they can't even pay the bills for their servers".

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