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Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by paulgb »

dpnewman wrote: post #33

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 answ…

Same here. What really bugs me is that Google could have made their users happier and put this thing to rest years ago if they just gave e-e an ultimatum, or better yet, dropped them from the index without warning. That's what they did to other sites, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4685750.stm

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by Skeletor »

mhp wrote: post #36
edrtfgdr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I think his valuation was really low!

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by breck »

aquateen wrote: post #27
SwellJoe wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I can't complain either. Scrolling down is slightly annoying, but the answers on EE are as a rule, much better than other google results.

Stackoverflow is popping up with great results now too.

Can't we be happy to have both and not bash one or the other?

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by subbu »

dannyr wrote: post #12

Remember to vote down any ExpertSexChange pages in Google. Hopefully, they would eventually go way down in the search results.

Even better, just click on that cross button so that the whole search result goes away. That's what I do whenever I see an entry from experts-exchange.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by tedunangst »

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.

That seems consistent with the graph when you change the view from uniques to just visits.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by mrbad101 »

How come nobody has mentioned that if you are coming from google, you just clicked the "Cached" button on the search results page?

They allow google to cache the entire page, with the answers. No login needed. I've never checked if a referer thing or not. Don't really care to investigate since the cache works fine.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by jkuria »

Feynman wrote: post #4

About time... I can't be the only one who thinks Experts-Exchange is lame...

Experts-exchange may be lame to many of the folks on this list because it is perhaps more useful to a 'light weight' crowd with a more IT bent (rather than hard core developer). I would venture to say that StackOverflow will NEVER match experts-exchange in traffic. There are just not that many smart programmers compared to the masses of IT folks and the general public that EE caters to.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by harold »

jkuria wrote: post #49
Feynman wrote: post #4

About time... I can't be the only one who thinks Experts-Exchange is lame...

Experts-exchange may be lame to many of the folks on this list because it is perhaps more useful to a 'light weight' crowd with a more IT bent (rather than hard core developer). I would venture to say that StackOverflow will NEVER match experts-exchange in traffic. There are just not that many smart programmers compared to the masses of IT folks and the general public that EE caters to.

Which is why Jeff and Joel are also rolling out serverfault.com and superuser.com

experts-exchange gets most of its traffic from gaming Google. It isn't that useful of a site.

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