Using Answers on Experts-Exchange.com Without Signing Up

[Bryce W]

As most of you techies probably know, when Googling for a computer problem Experts-Exchange.com dominates the results. When visiting the site you will see the original question in plain text but the answers will be grayed out and asking you to sign up.

For example:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_20950715.html
(scroll down a bit to see the grayed out answers)

If you dont want to sign up, click the Google "cached" link instead of the title link and you will be able to see the entire thread without signing up.

Example of cached link: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:IoVydjZ6fNUJ:www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_20950715.html+%22disk+boot+failure,+insert+system+disk+and+press+enter%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5
(scroll down again)

This is because they still want Google to spider their webpage so when the webpage detects Googlebot coming to spider their pages, they give it a free pass. Enjoy!

 

[Blues]

It also looks like if you scroll down to the bottom quater of the page past all the adds you can view them there as well.

 

[focuz]

Oh man, this just made my day. To think a work around for this website so easy and yet I never knew.

 

[Mac]

Google hacks. We are going to need a whole section to list and talk about these lol

 

[Vitiated]

As most of you techies probably know....

Dude, you are making it waaaaaay harder than it needs to be. Just scroll down to the bottom like the other member said.

 

[cis4smack]

That's awesome

 

[hext]

no more fustrating searches!

 

[gadz00ks1]

Great information, this will come in handy

 

[cole]

Yes, very nice. Thank you.

 

[seedubya]

I'm a fully paid up member of EE. At $99 / yr. it's some of the best money you'll ever spend. I've only ever once had a question I asked bomb and it wasn't for lack of trying on the part of the experts themselves. I'd strongly recommend joining...

 

[SuperStuff]

Not working

It doesn't look browsing cached pages in Google works for this anymore.

 

[hawks5999]

Amazing tip - especially the followups that point to all answers at bottom of page. When I saw that I figured a greasemonkey script could make that easier... and sure enough:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8614

 

[Phishie]

Wow... I never even knew the answers were at the bottom of the page. I would just always click the back button when I hit Experts-Exchange.