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Re: [LUG] Amusing

 

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 23:07, Anton Channing wrote:
> Jonathan Holloway wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I thought some of you might appreciate this.  I get a little annoyed at
> > the experts exchange
> > site on the internet since they seem to harvest info on the internet and
> > then charge for an
> > account ($12.95 + ) a month to access that information.
> >
> > What some of us noticed
> > recently is that the Google
> > cached version actually contains the full text : )  It made me chuckle...
>
> Ah ha!  So they are cheating by showing a different
> page to the search engine robots than to the end
> user!
>
> I also noticed their domain is experts-exchange.com
> these days.  It didn't have the hyphen in it at one
> time... :D
>
> Thanks, that is useful information...
>
> Anton
Not so amusing when you consider that a huge amount of new internet business 
seems to be an attempt to charge you for things you could get for free... if 
the internet search engines weren't paid to put things like experts exchange 
at the top of the list.....
Tom te tom te tom


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