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Re: [LUG] Amusing

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> 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.....

Well no.  But its amusing that there is a flaw
in the plan and the search engine cache shows
you what they don't want you to see...

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