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  • S Simon P Stevens

    Not an answer to your question, but expert-s-exchange (delete whichever - you feel is appropriate) uses a cheap trick. When you load the page, if the referrer is google (and probably other search engines), it includes all of the answers, you just have to scroll down past all of the advertising, hidden answers and signup-spam. (This is why they show up in search results).

    Simon

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    Not for quite a few months! They got wise to that and stopped... Ah ha! That stopped working for me some time ago. Exactly when I started using Google Chrome I suspect. Open the Google search in an IE tab and the referrer works, and I can scroll down. Makes sense. I'd still like to get rid of them. I know I can use "-expertsexchange" on each query, but I also know I will forget... :laugh:

    I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

      I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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      Henry Minute
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      OriginalGriff wrote:

      and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me.

      I do that all the time! Very annoying! :mad:

      Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

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        Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

        I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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        Henry Minute
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        To see if the 'scroll to the bottom' solution worked for me, I Googled for something I knew would give an Expert Sexchange hit. I scrolled down and sure enough there were the solutions. Rather amusingly, I thought, the solution marked as accepted was:

        I haven't found anything definitive that explains why this property won't work.

        Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

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        • M Mark_Wallace

          127.0.0.1 experts-exchange.com

          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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          John M Drescher
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          I am going to do that. Although I was a member in the past, I assume my account was disabled after 5+ years of inactivity..

          John

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

            I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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            Ian Shlasko
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            Ugh... I'm right with on that one, Griff... I actually WAS a member of ExpertsExchange, way back in the day... Not a paying member, mind you. Answered enough dumb questions to qualify as an "expert" for a while... Then I got sick of it... Why? Because CodeProject is much better :)

            Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
            Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

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            • P Peter_in_2780

              That won't affect Google results; just stops you getting sucked in later.

              Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.

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              Mark_Wallace
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              Peter_in_2780 wrote:

              That won't affect Google results; just stops you getting sucked in later.

              Good enough, no? Built-in 404 pages, for all their failings, load quick. The only real alternative is to create a custom Google search engine, using their API, and use that as the default search engine. All manner of restrictions can be set for a custom one.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

                I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                Steve McLenithan
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                What Richard suggested works, or for the lazy: http://www.badpenguin.co.uk/google.html[^] This auto adds the "-site:experts-exchange.com" to every query.

                // Steve McLenithan

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                • S Steve McLenithan

                  What Richard suggested works, or for the lazy: http://www.badpenguin.co.uk/google.html[^] This auto adds the "-site:experts-exchange.com" to every query.

                  // Steve McLenithan

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                  Dalek Dave
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                  Great Link!

                  ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave

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                  • S Steve McLenithan

                    What Richard suggested works, or for the lazy: http://www.badpenguin.co.uk/google.html[^] This auto adds the "-site:experts-exchange.com" to every query.

                    // Steve McLenithan

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                    OriginalGriff
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                    Nice one! Now all I've got to do is change the Google Chrome auto searching address bar to go there... :laugh: Life is never simple, is it?

                    I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

                      I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                      TheyCallMeMrJames
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                      There is another trick if you DO want to use EE. Even when the results are filtered out on the main page (as linked from the search results), you can get at them on the cached copy from Google. At some point the answer was indexed! Click on the cache link under the result, instead of on the result itself. This works for me in all browsers. Cheers,

                      They Call me Mister James

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                      • S Steve McLenithan

                        What Richard suggested works, or for the lazy: http://www.badpenguin.co.uk/google.html[^] This auto adds the "-site:experts-exchange.com" to every query.

                        // Steve McLenithan

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                        SpoonLord
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                        That link is too useful - thanks!

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

                          I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                          bbirajdar
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                          Yes. The experts exchange is a mess. Its the only site that comes in the Google search which tells you to signup to view the solution. Actually I had signed up for the experts exchange but the solutions and effective to less than ten percent. Morever there is overhead of signing up every time you open a google link.

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                          • S Steve McLenithan

                            What Richard suggested works, or for the lazy: http://www.badpenguin.co.uk/google.html[^] This auto adds the "-site:experts-exchange.com" to every query.

                            // Steve McLenithan

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                            bbirajdar
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                            Thanks Richard You saved me from a lot of irritation.. :laugh:

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                              Not for quite a few months! They got wise to that and stopped... Ah ha! That stopped working for me some time ago. Exactly when I started using Google Chrome I suspect. Open the Google search in an IE tab and the referrer works, and I can scroll down. Makes sense. I'd still like to get rid of them. I know I can use "-expertsexchange" on each query, but I also know I will forget... :laugh:

                              I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                              Psykocyber
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                              There is still a trick that works. Open Googles cached version of the site->text only->scroll down and ta-daa!

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                                Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

                                I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                                crayzeecoder
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                                If you use chrome or opera you can change the search url string so that it doesn't include experts exchange. In chrome you can't edit the default google search url but you can create a new one like "http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s -site:experts-exchange.com" In Opera you can edit the default google search url so just add " -site:experts-exchange.com" after "%s" I know it's not perfect because it doesn't work if you search from the google home page but I normally use the address bar

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                                  Adblock maybe? :)

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                                  Dan Neely
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                                  That won't keep EE out of the google results; but with careful use can block about 80-90% of the garbage placed above the answer.

                                  3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                                    If you use chrome or opera you can change the search url string so that it doesn't include experts exchange. In chrome you can't edit the default google search url but you can create a new one like "http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s -site:experts-exchange.com" In Opera you can edit the default google search url so just add " -site:experts-exchange.com" after "%s" I know it's not perfect because it doesn't work if you search from the google home page but I normally use the address bar

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                                    OriginalGriff
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                                    Thank you very much indeed! I created a new search, called "Google with no EE" with the search URL

                                    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%s+-site:experts-exchange.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs\_rfai=

                                    Set that as my default search engine, and bingo! Experts Exchange is blacklisted from my address bar searches. Very nice. Works in Chrome. Have 5 from me - I just wish it could be ten.:thumbsup:

                                    I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

                                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                    • H Henry Minute

                                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                                      and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me.

                                      I do that all the time! Very annoying! :mad:

                                      Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

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                                      OriginalGriff
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                                      Henry - have a look at CrazyCoders reply below: It explains how to do a blacklist in Chrome and Opera. It may also be possible in FF, I haven't installed it.

                                      I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

                                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                        Henry - have a look at CrazyCoders reply below: It explains how to do a blacklist in Chrome and Opera. It may also be possible in FF, I haven't installed it.

                                        I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                                        Henry Minute
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                                        Neat! :)

                                        Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

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                                          Does anyone know if it is possible to set a google default to "don't search ExpertsExchange"? It's is so slow to load and I don't want to sign up for it, but when I go looking for info it often come up and I click before I have realized it's no damn use to me. If I could just tell Google "never look there, no, I don't want results from them, no siree" that would be a bonus!

                                          I have learnt that you can not make someone love you, all you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

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                                          Hired Mind
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                                          I want the same thing for eggheadcafe.com.

                                          Before .NET 4.0, void Universe = NULL;

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