I've had it with Expert's Exchange. Almost every time I search Google for something technically oriented, I get results from Expert's Exchange that seem to be exactly what I'm looking for and without bothering to look at the site providing the answer, I eagerly follow the link only to find that my supposed solution is hiding behind a pay wall.
SRSLY?! You want me to pay for this stuff?
I know, I know - they've got to make a living too and all that so I can't be too hard on them. But I have decided that I won't tease myself anymore with near solutions. Instead I wrote this little script to simply block the display of links pointing to Expert's Exchange in Google search results.
BAH!
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Friday, December 4, 2009
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1 comments:
Just Scroll Down...
Experts Exchange were smart enough to figure out that internet surfers have very short attention spans and rarely scroll down beyond a given point. They in fact convince the users they need to register to view the content by showing a large number of dummy comments with text that says:
All comments and solutions are available to Premium Service Members only. Sign-up to view the solution to this question.
So the user assumes that the content is only viewable if he/she registers when in fact all the comments and solutions are viewable if you scroll down to the bottom of the page.
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