Available in English Slogan(s) Solve, Learn, Network Alexa rank 5,634 (February 2014) | Owner Randy Redberg Website experts-exchange.com Commercial yes | |
Experts-Exchange.com (EE) is a website for people in information technology (IT) related jobs to ask each other for tech help, receive instant help via chat, hire freelancers, and browse tech jobs.
History
Experts Exchange went live in October 1996. The first question asked was for a "Case sensitive Win31 HTML Editor".
Experts 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.
Later, Austin Miller and Randy Redberg took ownership of Experts Exchange, and the company was made profitable again. Experts Exchange claims to have more than 3 million solutions. Its users are mainly young to middle-aged males in the IT field. Originally, Experts Exchange could be reached by visiting expertsexchange.com, which can be read as "Expert Sex Change".
In the past, the site employed HTTP cookie and HTTP referer inspection to selectively display content. The page shown employed JavaScript to display answers to humans after some content showing how to become a member. Subsequently when an internal link is clicked by the user they are blocked from viewing the answer information until either becoming a paid member or spoofing their browser's User Agent string to a GoogleBot-like user agent.
In response to the obfuscation techniques that prevented anonymous users from seeing answer content, a few members of the community wrote articles about how to bypass the obfuscation.