Comments on: Experts Exchange Part 2

By: The Dude

The Dude — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:54:05 +0000

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46195

By: coderjoe

coderjoe — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:35:19 +0000

@Mike:

Absolutely true. However given EE’s past history I still feel it necessary to provide alternative methods for retrieving the information.

In addition I still feel their practices are misleading and as such I’ll continue to provide methods to clear up any confusion caused by their site design.

Again, however, you are absolutely correct.

By: Mike Lin

Mike Lin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:42:35 +0000

The answers are there in the page when you go to it normally too. They’re right at bottom after the big mess of links. The difference is in the google cache the obfuscated answers are missing.

You’d think that google would disallow showing different content to the googlebot than to regular visitors.

By: coderjoe

coderjoe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:39:05 +0000

@Sean:

Well that puts a whole new spin on things. Those results could easily be included using an AJAX Request and a search/replace.

Thanks for the tip!

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:16:31 +0000

A quick tip on how I get around their lockouts…

So that their answers get indexed by google, they let googlebot access their full-answser pages.

This has the pleasant side-effect that if you click on “cached” in the search results on google for an article, you get the full text (and it’s not rot13).

Hope that helps someone