Technology :: Browsing Support Sites
in the early afternoon on Friday, the 25th of January 2008 by Chad
I hate experts-exchange. The web site. Because if you have a weird technology issue, it seems to always be in the top 10 google hits.
But the answers on the page are always jumbled up. So unless you join, you can’t view the answer to your issue. For a long time I wished there was a way to tell google to just never display the results for that because it was worthless.
Today I found a better answer.
Using the google results against ‘em.
Google rates those pages high because it sees the normal unencrypted page. So the spider gets the entire contents. When you view it with your normal browser, their web server sends you garbage content until you sign up.
Why not make your web browser look like the google spider? In Firefox:
- Type in the address bar: about:config
- Navigate to general.useragent.extra.firefox
- Change the value to Googlebot 2.1
Go and enjoy the unencrypted content. Works on many many other web sites that let google spiders in but tries to keep you out.
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January 26th, 2008 at 2:19 am
If you’re using Firefox, you can add the “User Agent Switcher” extension and then import the XML file from http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html .
Off to Expert Sex Change to try my new user agent. Thanks!
February 6th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Sweet, it works, now if all the posters on sexperts-exchange were somewhat intelligent. Maybe will find something useful eventually.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:24 am
I think most of those guys have been diagnosed with sexlexia, a horrible disease…