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Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by edrtfgdr »

seldo wrote: post #26

Experts-exchange has an annoying and deceptive business model. Does Stack Overflow make any money? Is it supposed to?

It breaks even on a very small amount of ads. There are plans to make more money with a job board and a contractor/client bidding board. They also have plans for internal enterprise versions for companies. It was recently valued at $1M during a recent podcast.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by kqr2 »

dannyr wrote: post #7

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.

Actually, you have to scroll through a lot of bs, but the answer you are googling for is at the bottom of the page.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by dpnewman »

I actually did a virtual toast when google results started offering the [x] removal/non-relevant option for the sole reason that I could have a say in removing e-e results whenever they showed up. How many times I have clicked on a e-e link and cursed my way to the backspace key? I honestly cannot count. I don't begrudge a pay business model at all! .. just being honest that as a busy programmer, knowing that my answer lies somewhere on a free forum, I so often end up wasting time with a tease of an answer lying behind a CC wall.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by w1ntermute »

jsz0 wrote: post #28

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.

If you're using Firefox, you can remove Google search results by URL with the CustomizeGoogle extension (http://www.customizegoogle.com/). Go to the "Filter" section of its configuration to do so.

It also has many other useful Google tweaks, like removal of text ads and click tracking.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by Evgeny »

uhytghyt wrote: post #20
andrewljohnson wrote: post #2

I'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.

Actually, when I come there directly from Google, I do not have to login, just scroll down. However, if I bookmark the page and come back later, I won't see the answers. If I want to see it again, I have to enter the question title into Google and re-search, then go directly from Google again. Eeeew!

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by mhp »

edrtfgdr wrote: post #31
seldo wrote: post #26

Experts-exchange has an annoying and deceptive business model. Does Stack Overflow make any money? Is it supposed to?

It breaks even on a very small amount of ads. There are plans to make more money with a job board and a contractor/client bidding board. They also have plans for internal enterprise versions for companies. It was recently valued at $1M during a recent podcast.

Jason Calacanis offhandedly, and a bit sarcastically, offered 100k for 10%. I wouldn't call that a 1M valuation. (I don't dispute that it's some valuation, but your statement is a bit misleading).

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by fallentimes »

Evgeny wrote: post #35
uhytghyt wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Actually, when I come there directly from Google, I do not have to login, just scroll down. However, if I bookmark the page and come back later, I won't see the answers. If I want to see it again, I have to enter the question title into Google and re-search, then go directly from Google again. Eeeew!

How NY Times of them.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by ibsulon »

SwellJoe wrote: 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.

It occurs to me that I'd be more interested in reading articles written by experts in sex reassignment surgery (sex change) than most of the tripe on there.
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