[ale] serverfault.com

[James Taylor]

What I have found interesting about this site is that when they show up in a Google search for one of the products I support, they have an identical entry to one that shows up in the vendor's support forum.
I just assumed they don't have any original content, but dredge from other sources to scam people into paying for what they take for free from other sites.
-jt
 
 

James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com




>>> "Michael B. Trausch" <mbt at zest.trausch.us> 6/10/2009 08:48 PM >>> 


On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Richard Bronosky wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Michael H. Warfield<mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
>>        Ah...  Obviously a typo.  You meant "experts-exchange" (.com) not
>> ExpertSexChange (.com).
>
> Not a typo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expertsexchange#History I
> despise this site and that it pops up in all of my Google searches
> even though I cannot view the pages that are indexed without paying. I
> never give them the honor of the hyphen.

They do alter their pages when you come from a Google Search; scroll all the 
way down and the answers are at the bottom.  No sign-up required.

Go here, click the first link, scroll all the way to the bottom.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=installing+mysql+experts+exchange&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Eventually, they'll either fix the bug or be removed from Google; IIRC, Google 
does not permit sites to return content that is designed to lure Google Search 
users into coming back to the site by providing enhanced content.  It's 
possible that this is a legitimate bug in their software, but I doubt it. 
It's been there for an awfully long time.

 	--- Mike