[reitanqild]

Worth noting:

I always just scrolled to the very bottom of the page to see the answers on EE.

This might not have worked in the start (I don't know) but as far as I can remember it worked.

I think they did this intentionally because google would ban them otherwise.

[simias]

IIRC they changed their approach several times and I think for a while you wouldn't have access to the answer at all until they changed it to what you describe (answer buried at the bottom of the page). I assume they settled on that format for the reason you mention, Google would have ended up removing them from their results if they kept cheating.

[wilkystyle]

I think you could also click to view the cached version of the page.

[nmstoker]

Yes, scrolling down was what I recall too.

Once in a while it wouldn't work and I ditched EE pretty much as soon as SE got going