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We’ve all had the moment when we search for an answer to a technical question and our search engine suggests a trip to ExpertSexchange.com. Er, ExpertsExchange.com. And when we realize that they expect us to pay to see the answer, our instincts take over- we scrub our way through the page source hoping to see a way around the paywall.
If your question was, “Who do I blame?”, that’s one answer ExpertsExchange will give you for free.
// Blame Peter // Temporary BTF hacks pending #9888, #11523. // Temporary BTF-Related Popup hacks pending #11541, #8286. // This is necessary until a global popup solution (#8286) can place all popups in the body, //for proper positioning above all content. // This would be relatively simple to acheive (move popups to <body> after DOM load) //but there are async requirements for file upload that force parent component dependencies. Lame-sauce
On the other hand, there’s no evidence that Peter is to blame for this WTF also hidden in their code:
var s = setUpOmnitureVariable('eexchangeprod'); s.pageName="LO - 20120315-EE-VQP-007" s.server="cms1.l3.redsrci.com" s.channel="/Software/System_Utilities/" s.pageType="" s.prop1="" s.prop2="" s.prop3="" //SNIP s.prop49="" s.prop50="" s.eVar1="" s.eVar2="" s.eVar3="" //SNIP s.eVar49="B - 500" s.eVar50="" s.hier1="/Software/System_Utilities/" /************* DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ! **************/ var s_code=s.t();if(s_code)document.write(s_code)//
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Google simply shouldn't index Experts Exchange. It's that useless, doesn't deserve it's prominent ranking on tech queries, and at least for large parts of it's life deliberately obscured content from users that it showed to the Googlebot (a Google no-no and one they should have acted on)
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