roopurt18 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 More and more I'm finding experts exchange in the first or second page of my Google searches. I was curious if anyone around these parts actually uses the site and feels it's worth the fee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I agree it does come up a lot on google searches, and I think it is pretty ridiculous because you can't see the answers. I remember there used to be both subscriptions and non-subscription posts. I don't think it is worth the fee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 I'd probably be willing to try the 7 day trial if they didn't want my billing information so they could roll it directly into a monthly fee. Also if they'd increase the trial to 14 days I think that would be more helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orio Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I, too, often get to expert exchange when I search for something. But the thing is, eventually I find out the answer I was looking for, without having to pay anyone. I think the extra 5 minutes (or even less most of the times) of moving on and searching isn't worth subscribing and paying expert exchange... Orio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsidian Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Ditto the previous remarks. I, too, have often found their "solutions" at the top of my Google searches, but I'm not about to pay someone for a solution that I can't be guaranteed will fit my need anyway. That's one of my biggest gripes about them is that for any given question, there can be a myriad of answers, and when I can browse multiple answers elsewhere and choose the best for my needs, I'm not going to pay them to give me what they deem to be what I want to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Agreed, I can almost always find the answer I'm looking for when spending more time or refining my search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 And so can I. Depending on the question I can find the answer between 30 seconds or 30 minutes. Over time this extra time spent searching for answers can add up; this is why I'm curious about the quality of their service and the answer there. Even if their answer is just a post-back to an obscure blog that you would have found eventually anyways, it's the potential time saved that matters. If they save me just 15 minutes per month then it more than pays for the price. The thing is there's no indication on the quality of the responses and I'm not about to sign up for a trial and give them my billing info at the same time. That's why I was hoping someone here might actually have used them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 Oh wow. So after doing some googling on experts exchange, I learned that the answers are visible at the bottom of the page if you just scroll down. Looks like they're banking on our collective ADD to not notice this and it's working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewbee Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 roopurt, OMG. You are correct. I can't believe I never seen that before. You have to scroll all the way down to the bottom ,but everything is re-repeated with the answer-unblocked. This includes the accepted solution. Wow... amazing... how in the world was this never noticed before (atleast by me?). I guess the assumption that the values were blocked out at the top kept me from looking below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted April 8, 2008 Author Share Posted April 8, 2008 I guess the assumption that the values were blocked out at the top kept me from looking below. Exactly. But they have to make their content publicly accessible or the search engine bots wouldn't be able to index it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Oh wow. So after doing some googling on experts exchange, I learned that the answers are visible at the bottom of the page if you just scroll down. Looks like they're banking on our collective ADD to not notice this and it's working. I've been taking advantage of this for a few years. I absolutely love Google's cache. edit: After poking around, it seems that it's available to the general public, too. Even outside of Google's cache. Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewbee Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 From what I am reading as well, in firefox you can get a plugin that changes your user-agent. If you set this user-agent to GoogleBot, you can see all the answers without scrolling all the way down. SEO SPAM anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Oh wow. So after doing some googling on experts exchange, I learned that the answers are visible at the bottom of the page if you just scroll down. Looks like they're banking on our collective ADD to not notice this and it's working. I thought everyone knew that... then again, most of the "answers" are crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsider Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Oh wow. So after doing some googling on experts exchange, I learned that the answers are visible at the bottom of the page if you just scroll down. Looks like they're banking on our collective ADD to not notice this and it's working. I thought everyone knew that... then again, most of the "answers" are crap. I didn't discover it until recently, and it's been said earlier, but that seems to be my biggest issue. It doesn't fit my situation, and it requires more research. Which is better for me in the long run anyway, but I agree, probably not worth paying the fee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccabe Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Recently they have started turning the text into gibberish even if you do scroll down, allt he text comes out like chinese characters. However if you find the experts-exchange (tee hee Expert Sex Change ) website when searching for an answer then clicked the Cached link below the result in google and it shows it all in plain text However I never find their answers very useful, it is better to us a more freely available site or specialist site for what your problem is Sites I like: http://www.techmonkeys.co.uk/ http://forums.techguy.org/ http://www.lockergnome.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I knew it used to be this way, but I thought recently they made it all blocked to non-subscribed users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanwb Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Oh wow. So after doing some googling on experts exchange, I learned that the answers are visible at the bottom of the page if you just scroll down. Looks like they're banking on our collective ADD to not notice this and it's working. This still works, I searched on Google "Experts Exchange Socket problems", clicked the first one from EE and the solution was at the bottom. I still don't like EE though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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