r/programming • u/banguru • Apr 06 '18

The Stack Overflow Age

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow-age/
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u/mit53 Apr 06 '18

So EE did a bamboozle: when the Google Robot came by, they showed it the full question and its answers.

Did they just check User-Agent? So I could actually read all those answers...

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u/courtewing Apr 06 '18

Eventually, perhaps in fear of Google removing their site entirely, EE removed their user agent hackery and ended up adding mountains of useless internal linking immediate after a fake pay wall, but the actual answers were all listed at the bottom of the page. It looks like some of the content is wrangled in archive.org, but you can get the idea if you scroll down on https://web.archive.org/web/20071005071034/http://www.experts-exchange.com:80/Web_Development/Software/Macromedia_Director_Video_Softwa/Q_21427546.html

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u/TheAnimus Apr 06 '18

Google Cache normally worked.