You know what I hate? experts-exhange.com.
Why? Because I get all excited when I type a question into Google, and then see the answer right there in the search results, and click on it, and then -bam!- I’m experts-exchanged! (That is, I’m taken to a web page with my question clearly displayed, and then a gray area that says, “to see the answer pay $50/sell us your unborn children/renounce your religion/vote democrat/eat tomatoes/some other completely unacceptable thing that you don’t want to do but can think of to put here for them to have asked you to do”)
It’s like… you could call it… Let’s say you’re a teenage boy on prom-night, and your going in for your first… kiss… and all the sudden the girl’s dad busts in the room and throws a burlap sack over his daughter and carries her out into the hall and then comes back in and demands $50 for a subscription to continue. You got experts-exchanged sucka!!!!
I’m looking for a simple answer, not looking to get married to a website. Just give me the answer, and then if I find you useful enough to donate I will. Then you have earned my respect, and made me excited to support your service.
Gargamel! It makes me angry!
So, do I pony up and pay the pimp? Or do I go find a site that wants me for me and not for my money? I’m not going to go to a whore. Instead I’ll go in search of a mutual relationship, and if I’m satisfied I’ll make an honest site out of her and donate.
Today I went in for the kiss one more time only to have a hand shoved in my face with a simultaneous reach around for my wallet. Experts-exchanged! NO! NO MORE HOOKER SITES!!!! What am I going to do about it? KILL THEM!!!! Er… well… just… not really, I’m just going to make them disappear.
I downloaded the customize-google browser extension for Firefox and set a filter to weed out anything related to experts-echange.com. Now I will never have to live in fear of being experts-exchanged again!
Here’s a screen-shot of me not ever having to see that awful dirty prostitute in my search results again:
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Do you know why all those results are returned first in Google? Because Experts Exchange is the best website for anything related to IT, and every answer to every question I’ve ever had has been from Experts Exchange. You shouldn’t bash it before you try it, it’s actually one of the most well-made sites I’ve ever been to.
Just get your company to buy you a subscription. What’s 50 bucks to them for the absolute best place on the web for programming advice/help? My company pays for mine.
I did a blog post mentioning the goodness of Experts Exchange back in November.
BTW, see this page. You know the phrase “you get what you pay for”? That actually means something in this case.
Aw crap. Now I look like an idiot. I just noticed that you can get a “free trial”…
Ok, so I spoke hastily, now I might actually try them. And now I see that it’s not $50/mo it’s like $100/year…
http://www.calvert.ch/affine is an Internet Explorer addin which allows you to hide unwanted sites from your search engine results