gHacks technology news » experts exchange http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:10:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How To View Experts Exchange Answers Without Account http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/09/how-to-view-experts-exchange-answers-without-account/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/09/how-to-view-experts-exchange-answers-without-account/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:46:14 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11851 experts exchangeA recent post over at Techie Buzz explained how to access the answers of the Expert Exchange forum. Users who regularly search the Internet for solutions will eventually stumble upon that forum which on first glance provides answers to questions only to registered – meaning paying in this case – users.

Users who do not stop here and turn their back on the forum in frustration can actually access the answers quite easily without having to use third party services or changing their web browser’s configuration. What many users fail to realize that the answers are right in front of them, or more precisely right at the end of the scrollbar.

The Experts Exchange forum uses a very clever forum disguise to make visitors think that they can only access the answers if they signup as the banners and information directly below the question suggest. If they happen to scroll down further however they will realize that all the answers are located below that block.

There is one requirement though. Only visitors who are coming from search engines will be able to see the answers this way. There is however a quick and easy way of achieving this. Copying and pasting the title of the thread into a search engine form will do the trick. The posts at the Experts Exchange forum are usually well indexed and one of the first entries should be a direct link to that forum post.

A click on that link will open the Experts Exchange page with the question and its answers which are located below the middle block.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/09/how-to-view-experts-exchange-answers-without-account/feed/ 18 Free Answers from Experts-Exchange.com http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/11/free-answers-from-experts-exchangecom/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/11/free-answers-from-experts-exchangecom/#comments Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:19:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/11/free-answers-from-experts-exchangecom/ You might have stumbled upon this site if you ever had a computer related question that you could not answer. First step, ask google. Second step, find websites that force you to login or even pay to see the answer. Big thanks to eonestudio for making this little trick public. The above link displays a video which shows how you can take a look at the answers for free.

All you need to do is the following. Search for something, e.g. printing from a website, the search string you would enter would look like the following.

printing from a website site:experts-exchange.com

Please note that it is not necessary to use the site:experts-exchange.com parameter, this is only done for demonstration purposes.

The first search result will link directly to the experts-exchange.com article with no solution but a button stating View Solution. If you click that button you see that you will have to subscribe to view the solution. Not today though.

Go back to the Google results page and click on Cached which loads a cached version of that webpage. Guess what ? The cached page holds all the answers to the question right at the bottom. Just scroll down and see for yourself.

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