Having considered the expert in Experts Exchange to equate with picking up subscribers, I was interested in Corrine’s post at The Security Garden.
Bah! Experts Exchange = Scam Artists
Last week when I read Ed Bott’s Dear Google: Please take pay sites out of search results, I was pleased to see that I am not the only person who has been frustrated with finding that the search results link led to the Experts Exchange. I have always thought that the site is a sad joke.
Try searching the site or clicking on the Trial Membership link and learn that these scam artists are charging an outrageous fee for information provided/collected by other people.
Hmmm, food for thought. There is a wealth of knowledge and assistance available without having to pay for it, provided by forum volunteers, MVPs and Microsoft. Please see my links in the right hand column on the ‘Articles’ page.
Corrine’s complete article
Update: I was informed one doesn’t have to pay to see the answers, one just has to wade through all the advertisements and shady tactics to get a user to register. Ok but I’m simply looking for responses to a user’s problem by performing a Google search which brings up the links.
All comments and solutions are available to Premium Service Members only.
I tried to take a look at a HJT log attachment and received this message:
You must login to access the file you requested
Signin using your Experts-Exchange username and password.
Why would anyone bother to jump through all the hoops and ads when other free help sites have volunteer experts you can post to, or simply read their answers without all that?
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I agree 1000%. Experts Exchange SUCKS big time!
What Experts Exchange really is, is a hack of Google – they are using Google to advertise their crappy and useless “service” for free!
Google is an idiot company to allow themselves to be played so easily. (Or is Google accepting payments under the table??) Google really ought to ban Experts Exchange from all search results. That place is as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Hi I found this topic by googling “Experts-exchange sucks bigtime!”
I Agree with Computer user.
Expert Exchange should be black-listed … no solution (payed?), yet getting high rankings (higher than free sites) must be a google hack, imo.
Hth
I’ve been using experts-exchange for a few months now. I’ve asked about 15 quiestions and every single one of them has been answered (within a couple days, some within hours) with a response that provided a solution, and those alone,for me, have paid the subscription fees. There is thousands of members to EE who are very knowledgable, and provide immeadiate assitance to what your problem may be. Forget that you may be asking a question, you also have access to their database of millions of previously asked questions, so if you ever find yourself stuck on something, chance are someone else has gone through a related problem, and its in their database. I would put the “experts” of EE against any free public forum.
I used to work with guy who had his mcse, ccna, and all sorts of toshiba telephone systems and voip certifications… he subscribes to EE, and turned me on to it.
However if your sitting at home not knowing how share a file between computers, of course it wouldn’t be that useful. Its for serious IT people. Their company name is an accurate description of what service they provide.
I agree experts-exchange is a rip off. Since Google will not block these clowns I just use BlockSite firefox add on and put them in the list, at least they will not be getting a page hits from me ( google take note).
Expert exchange makes money from people who provide the content for free
I have looked at the sites that are E-E competitors and am convinced that even myself (not an IT pro in any sense) can answer enough questions to get full access for free!! The other sites were so hard to even figure out just what I am doing or who is even on there to answer that I’m blown away that they’re even considered competitors to E-E!! One of them (experts exchange.asia has had 1 user log in in 2010) haha. If you’re not going to take the time and PATIENCE to search the internet for the correct solution, just pay E-E to get a solution for you stat then just cancel the membership (unless you end up loving it like I did)