How To: See results from Experts Exchange
Monday, September 1st, 2008I’m sure that many of you have seen the Experts Exchange website and sometimes had the frustrating situation where the site insists that you log into the website to see the result. Other times the results are shown to you if you scroll down to the bottom of the page. Thanks to Channel9 forums I’ve discovered that this only works if you came from google.
For example the dns query result shows this resulting page. By clicking on the first link in the google results and scrolling down you will find the answers. Clicking on the saved url will only give you the option to login.
Hopefully this little trick will help you get the answers you need. Is this tactic sneaky? Yes. Is it justifiable to get the answers without joining? In my opinion yes – as they are gaming Google to get to the top of the search engine, then it’s fair game to use this tweak to access the results. If Google had the option to personalise the results so that I could ignore Experts Exchange (or other sites without specifying the ignore option for every search) this would be great ,but as this feature doesn’t exist this tweak should help.
