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    Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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      Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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      true ! but i think they payed :mad: can't imagine another Explanation :-\

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        true ! but i think they payed :mad: can't imagine another Explanation :-\

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        So play there game and pay more :-\

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          true ! but i think they payed :mad: can't imagine another Explanation :-\

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          I doubt it..One thing I have noticed is that on SOF, content is highly controlled with less freedom for a new user resulting is less repetition and more organized content.

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            Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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            Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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            There is a simple solution for that. Search programming answers inside CP side and not Google...

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              Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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              StackOverflow is explicitly set up around answering questions. That means that page titles are usually close to your query string, and the link you want to click on when you're searching for 'how do I do X' probably is the SO one, which I imagine counts in Google's scoring. CodeProject is about lengthier articles and discussion, which are more useful for reading around a topic rather than answering a particular question. For example a search for .Net TPL gives Code Project above Stack Overflow. We do have a Q&A here but it's of a lower quality and with less of a historical volume of good answers than SO's.

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                StackOverflow is explicitly set up around answering questions. That means that page titles are usually close to your query string, and the link you want to click on when you're searching for 'how do I do X' probably is the SO one, which I imagine counts in Google's scoring. CodeProject is about lengthier articles and discussion, which are more useful for reading around a topic rather than answering a particular question. For example a search for .Net TPL gives Code Project above Stack Overflow. We do have a Q&A here but it's of a lower quality and with less of a historical volume of good answers than SO's.

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                That sounds right but I assume more people are searching for questions that actual content through google. Is there some guideline in place at CP to improve the quality of answers ?

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                  Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                  You are comparing the feeding-frenzy of sharks with the orderly migration of Emperor Penguins.

                  "What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett

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                    You are comparing the feeding-frenzy of sharks with the orderly migration of Emperor Penguins.

                    "What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett

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                    :laugh:

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                      Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                      Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc

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                        You are comparing the feeding-frenzy of sharks with the orderly migration of Emperor Penguins.

                        "What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett

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                        I do walk a little funny when it gets cold outside... ;P :laugh:

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                          Code Project excels at articles. I may be thrown into the deepest level of hell for saying this, but I think CP's Q&A is pretty abysmal. The presentation is terrible in my opinion (and it's currently broken so I can't even point to specific things, but layout and unnecessary information (like who and when taking up huge amounts of horizontal bandwidth, and things like "your filters", "tags", and "top experts" taking up more vast amounts of real estate, and I really don't give a rats arse about how many views a question has had...anyways, you get the idea. And with stackoverflow, its presentation (while also not the greatest) at least isn't screaming at me with big bold blocks of orange and hyper-large fonts. I realize that CP wants its own branding so one has to go with whatever presentation format makes CP unique, but content-wise, stackoverflow also is so much richer and broader in community support. CP is still too much in the Microsoft camp for me to find it useful for non-Microsoft Q&A, and when it comes to Microsoft-related stuff, stackoverflow still is my first choice. That, and yes, the online MSDN documentation and bloggers, especially when it comes to more arcane things in the Microsoft world like F#. My 2c. Marc

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                          :thumbsup: for honest review. Second link for stackoverflow vs codeproject[^] showed this comment Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements. And this was in 2009 so I wonder why QA section has not been improved on CP ?

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                            Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                            Possibly, but the reason I am here rather than there is the people. Generally, the people here are more friendly, tolerant, and generally knowledgeable than the bunch of rep obsessed sense-of-humor-failures that inhabit SO. There are exceptions here, of course. If your answer is misspelled, or contradicts someones opinion (despite being correct) it gets abuse votes or removed... Bunch of onanists, most of 'em!

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                              it's my opinion both are best Stackoverflow:-this website is provide best solution any type of problem, like that math,Desktop and so. more advance user then a code project use. code Project:- Best site for me i pick up a complete solution, articles good understanding with simple language one more advance thing is articles with example. In my office more guy's are used codeproject

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                                :thumbsup: for honest review. Second link for stackoverflow vs codeproject[^] showed this comment Similar features were under discussion long before the release of SO, as the CP forums had become clogged with off-topic, poorly-asked questions. Unfortunately, it doesn't offer any equivalent to the close and delete features of SO, so there's no good way to quickly shut down duplicate questions or questions that are missing necessary information. CP would do well to look to SO for improvements. And this was in 2009 so I wonder why QA section has not been improved on CP ?

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                                That's not entirely accurate, members of a certain level (Gold in the right category maybe) can edit and delete questions. I think some of it is a philosophical thing though – here at CP we try to leave things open as much as possible, so you inevitably get junk content, whereas SO is more about preserving the cleanliness and quality of its posted material.

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                                  Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                                  Ravi Bhavnani
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                                  learner'sbug wrote:

                                  stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google

                                  Without a doubt. SO has a very well monitored and vetted Q/A system.  I find answers on SO much more helpful than CP.  On the flip side, CP provides the best organized collection of fully-functional sample MS code I've seen on the web. /ravi

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                                    Codeproject > stackoverflow They don't even have a little alien.

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                                      Agree with Ravi. But Codeproject has massive compilation articles* which equals to "N number of answers". *Sample one - CodeProject Frequently Asked Questions Series 1: The ASP.NET GridView[^]. Search for articles in CP with keywords "how to", "tips", "tricks", etc.,

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                                        Is it just my perception or stackoverflow answers actually have better ranking with google ? Most of the time for a query stackoverflow link shows up before the codeproject link.

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                                        Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                                        I see less codez please on Stack Overflow.

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                                          it's my opinion both are best Stackoverflow:-this website is provide best solution any type of problem, like that math,Desktop and so. more advance user then a code project use. code Project:- Best site for me i pick up a complete solution, articles good understanding with simple language one more advance thing is articles with example. In my office more guy's are used codeproject

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                                          BillW33
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                                          I have to argee that both Codeproject and stackoverflow are very helpful sites.

                                          Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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