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Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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> 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.

Google said when they launched search wiki that "right now" it wouldn't do anything for anyone else, but you know that Google can't resist using data they have for too long.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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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 ;)

This seems to only work when coming directly from Google to ExpertSexChange.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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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 re…

I had to work w/ ASP.NET from 04-07, and ended up on EE once in a while. I can't complain; never had to pay for an answer, and usually found one more often than other sites.

This crowd should know how to ignore ads or view the google cache anyway.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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If there was a way to permanently blacklist experts exchange from my Google searches I would do it in an instant. As far as I can tell you can only moderate it down each time you see it which frankly seems to have zero relevance to your future searches. You'd think after demoting it 50 times Google would realize I'm not interested but... nope. Seems to always be in my top 10 searches when trying to solve a problem.

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.

Market share always adds up to 100%.

But market size is not static over time, nor are these the only two players in the market.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Until a while back(a year?), I recall that if you came across a question on ExpExch, there would be lots of 'join now' buttons (those blingy types) just below. But If you go down the page down - about 2 page downs - all the answers were there to be read. This way, I did find some decent answers once in a while.

anyway, good riddance.

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