Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by avgarrison on Monday January 16, 2012 @05:23PM
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Whenever I'm stumped and turn to google with a programming question, it's always such a relief to see SO as the top result. No other site has the same quality of answers, IMO.
Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by saryant on Monday January 16, 2012 @06:19PM
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Absolutely. I'm doing some work in ASP at the moment and whenever I see asp.net results at the top I know I'm in for a world of hurt.
Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by Turing_Machine on Monday January 16, 2012 @04:31PM
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I certainly don't miss wading through all those crap Experts Exchange links in the Google results (actually the advice on that site was often pretty good, but the business model was repellant).
Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by manojlds on Monday January 16, 2012 @07:49PM
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Weird part was that though the answers were obfuscated, all you had to do was to scroll down the page and get the answers - what a joke! But the answers were good.
Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by icebraining on Monday January 16, 2012 @08:08PM
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That's to ensure Google could read them. If they hid the answers the Googlebot wouldn't include them in the search index.
Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by Eric_Peterson on Friday January 20, 2012 @02:18AM
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http://beta.experts-exchange.com
It took us a while to convince EE to change its strategy, but with some help from a giant Panda, EE has been convinced to implement a "Freemium" model at the end of the month when it launches a completely rebuilt site.
Take a look...
Eric / Netminder Senior Admin Experts Exchange
Re:Stack Exchange grew from 16M to 32M uniques in 2011
by apg on Monday January 16, 2012 @08:28PM
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I'd love for non-programming sites like http://diy.stackexchange.com/ to catch on. I feel a little queasy every my most relevant search leads me to Yahoo Answers.
But in all seriousness, stackexchange have completely stolen the parade from all other community driven Q&A sites.
Joel was correct when he withdraw support for customer hosted Stack sites, and went through the incubation process.
Stackoverflow has totally wiped out all of the other failing programming websites, and the community is a great one to be apart of. (I hated those sites that would obfuscate all the answers and try and get you to pay to sign up, while cloaking everything on Google).
Congrats.