Experts Exchange needs to die in a fire. They're the reason I wish Google had a 'never show results from domain X' feature. This graph makes me very, very happy.
They do. -site:experts-exchange.com
To avoid typing that into all the search boxes, just modify the query string for google that you use to search for with the search box/keyword for searching in the url bar. I have that and a couple of dozen others in the "g" keyword in my url bar.
However, I see little point in that -- searching from the location bar just seems easier to me. CTRL-t gets you a new tab with focus in the location bar from anywhere, and I don't have to wait for any page to load to type in the query. Even if google is fast, it's still not as fast.
Also, you can set up other easy searches. For example, stuff I have used in the past 2 hours:
- gis (google image search)
- gfi (google finance)
- listof (google I feel lucky, site:wikipedia.org with search string "list of %s")
Yes, I realize their tactics are nasty, but for all those answers to simply disappear from the web would be a shame.
Ideal would be for Stack Overflow to buy them out and import all their existing content.
And what's to say Stack Overflow won't become like EE some day, and start holding answers hostage? EE wasn't always this way you know... [edit: I realize this is a completely different line of thinking -- it just popped into my head]
Joel and Jeff have explicitly tackled that issue in the podcast, with reference to IMDB and CDDB as well as "the hyphen site". All the user generated content on Stack Overflow is licensed under cc-wiki and available as an anonymised data dump. http://bit.ly/cGWxT5
It's not impossible but they can't just make off with the data in the way that CDDB did.
(Now, if you want to talk about a company abusing the community ... look at Yelp.)
SO is better for finding iPhone or C# related answers.
At worst they could only hold new answers hostage. All of the existing questions and answers, every single one of them, is licensed under cc-wiki and is made available to the public via data dumps on bittorrent. You can quite literally download all of the question and answer data for all of Stack Overflow, if they turn evil you can host your own site with all of the old data, or someone else could. The latest data dump was 11 days ago: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
Not to say that I'd ever pay for EX, but it obviously has its uses...
Really? None for Yahoo! Answers? :)
The fact is that the only reason they rank highly at all is by cheating google's indexer and using a cheap psychological trick. Their business model is naiveté. Once you point it out to their customer base, they will quit the service.
I have keyword searches setup in Firefox for StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser, but I hated getting blog and meta results in my StackOverflow searches. This will help in a big way.
Much appreciated!