[ale] serverfault.com

[Jim Kinney]

It works for Microsoft...

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:10 PM, James
Taylor<James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> 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
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> James Taylor
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>>>> "Michael B. Trausch" <mbt at zest.trausch.us> 6/10/2009 08:48 PM >>>
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> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Richard Bronosky wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Go here, click the first link, scroll all the way to the bottom.
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> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=installing+mysql+experts+exchange&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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> 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.
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>        --- Mike
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