^ "Experts-Exchange 3 million solutions".Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. (Copy of Experts Exchange's newsletter on 4)". ^ "Case sensitivite Win31 HTML Editor".Stack Overflow founder Jeff Atwood cited Experts-Exchange's poor reputation and paywall as a motivation for creating Stack Overflow. In response to these obfuscation techniques, which prevented anonymous users from seeing answer content, a few members of the community wrote articles about how to bypass the obfuscation by spoofing one's web browser referrer using an addon like Smart Referrer and setting the referer as being from Google. Subsequently, when an internal link was clicked by the user, they were blocked from viewing the answer information until either becoming a paid member or spoofing their browser's User Agent string to that of a search engine crawler such as GoogleBot. The page shown employed JavaScript to display answers to humans after some content showing how to become a member. In the past, the site employed HTTP cookie and HTTP referer inspection to display content selectively. Its users are mainly young to middle-aged males in the IT field. Experts Exchange claims to have more than 3 million solutions.
Later, Austin Miller and Randy Redberg took ownership of Experts Exchange, and the company was made profitable again. Įxperts Exchange went bankrupt in 2001 after venture capitalists moved the company to San Mateo, CA, and was brought back largely through the efforts of unpaid volunteers. The first question asked was for a "Case sensitive Win31 HTML Editor". Experts Exchange went live in October 1996.
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