View Full Version : Experts exchange is making solutions invisible
nico5038
04-27-2007, 02:47 PM
When not logged in the site www.experts-exchange.com is blurring the comments and when you move your mousepointer over the blurred comment they ask you to sign up (=pay) for seeing the answer.
You can see the image of this effect at my page: www.geocities.com/nico5038
There is a way to avoid payment by signing up as an expert, but who wants to put effort in a site that's hiding your valuable comments from the internet public.
What's your opinion about the way this site is collecting paying members?
Bill Poster
05-11-2007, 01:25 PM
I don't like the sound of it
Neither do I, but ran lately in userscripts.org/scripts/show/8614 that shows atleast how to undo the effect.
Nic;o)
CLOAKING EXPERTS IS MORE LIKE IT! Funny that when you visit using user agent Googlebot you get a different version of the page!
webmaster
05-25-2007, 03:39 PM
When not logged in the site www.experts-exchange.com is blurring the comments and when you move your mousepointer over the blurred comment they ask you to sign up (=pay) for seeing the answer.
Actually, it is just an expansion of the same nonsense they've had for quite some time.
Keep scrolling down the experts-exchange page. Yes, further down. Eventually you'll reach the non-blurred comments.
tobiasly
06-04-2007, 06:28 PM
I got so fed up with experts-exchange showing up in my Google searches that I reported them as spammers:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
I'm pretty sure that what they're doing is against Google's policy. And no, I don't have *any* non-blurred answers when I do a search. I searched the HTML source for the answer that appeared in Google and it's just not there.
Only when I click "cached" from Google (or switch my UA to Googlebot) do I see the answer. Maybe if enough people report them, they'll get removed from Google.
I got so fed up with experts-exchange showing up in my Google searches that I reported them as spammers:
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html
I'm pretty sure that what they're doing is against Google's policy. And no, I don't have *any* non-blurred answers when I do a search. I searched the HTML source for the answer that appeared in Google and it's just not there.
Only when I click "cached" from Google (or switch my UA to Googlebot) do I see the answer. Maybe if enough people report them, they'll get removed from Google.
Totally, I did the same!
Wouldn't want to be Experts Exchange today!
Google has updated their Webmaster Guidelines and they now say:
"Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index."
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66355