I am pretty happy with this news. I am sick of experts-exchange. When u searched something you got a link of exchange-experts, but technically you got nothing because u need to login or register or pay or something else to see the content.
Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
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Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#12Remember to vote down any ExpertSexChange pages in Google.
Hopefully, they would eventually go way down in the search results.
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#13About time... I can't be the only one who thinks Experts-Exchange is lame...
I think Joel and Jeff also though ExpertsExchange was lame, and that's partly why they created StackOverflow.
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#14About time... I can't be the only one who thinks Experts-Exchange is lame...
I think Joel and Jeff also though ExpertsExchange was lame, and that's partly why they created StackOverflow.
Yes, Joel took quite a few potshots at the "hyphenated site", as he put it, during his talk at Google about StackOverflow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ).
Also, Jeff mentions it in his intro to StackOverflow Coding Horror post (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html):
Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming)
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#15I'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?
That's correlation at best, not causation. And the significance of the difference is questionable at that.
I presume there are other programmer websites in the world than stackoverflow and expertsexchange. The miniscule decrease you note can hardly be attributed to stackoverflow, just because stack overflow is the other company on the graph.
It needn't even be competitive forces at play. It could be that expertsexchange got slower and Google fed it less traffic for a while, which is something that might be permanent or transient. Attributing this to anything based on this graph will be a fruitless labor.
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#16Remember to vote down any ExpertSexChange pages in Google. Hopefully, they would eventually go way down in the search results.
> vote down ... in Google.
Wait, what? You can vote for/against google search results?
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
That's correlation at best, not causation. And the significance of the difference is questionable at that. I presume there are other programmer websites in the world than stackoverflow and expertsexchange. The miniscule decrease you note can hardly be attributed to stackoverflow, just because stack overflow is the other company on the graph. It needn't even be competitive forces at play. It could be that expertsexcha…
I agree, but there's always wishful thinking!
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#18Remember to vote down any ExpertSexChange pages in Google. Hopefully, they would eventually go way down in the search results.
> vote down ... in Google. Wait, what? You can vote for/against google search results?
If you log in, you have access to "search wiki" features. But as far as I know, it just affects the pages that you see.
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#19Awesome.
Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange
#20I'd say catching, but not eating away. There's nothing in this graph that suggests market share is being taken away.
Except the unique visitors to hyphen also includes those that go there from Google, find they have to sign up and immediately go away in disgust.