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Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by ojilles »

breck wrote: post #43
aquateen wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You can, but you won't due to network effects involved.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by lucumo »

paulgb wrote: post #41
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

According to that article BMW was breaching Google's guidelines. No such thing can be said for Experts-Exchange. The simple fact that you don't like Experts-Exchange should not be any reason for Google to remove the page.

I personally don't mind the EE pages. They tend to have good answers from time to time. I have a bigger beef with sites like mysqlperformanceblog.com that frequently get their search result pages indexed. Pointless crap.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by mikeyur »

dca wrote: post #39
Feynman wrote: post #4

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

Agreed - they've been corrupting my search results for far too long. Its refreshing to see this in its place.

Does google have a blacklist feature? Can I exclude all links from a certain domain within my google prefs? This needs to be a feature.

I came across 3 or 4 experts-exchange pages today when looking to fix a small apache issue.

Re: Stackoverflow Eating Away at Experts-Exchange

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Post by torpor »

mikeyur wrote: post #54
dca wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed - they've been corrupting my search results for far too long. Its refreshing to see this in its place.

Does google have a blacklist feature? Can I exclude all links from a certain domain within my google prefs? This needs to be a feature. I came across 3 or 4 experts-exchange pages today when looking to fix a small apache issue.

add "-site:expertsexchange.com" in your google query to exclude results from that site ..
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