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by loeg 2786 days ago
From the title I was guessing "Experts Exchange." Does anyone remember that?
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Do you remember when they changed the domain from "expertsexchange.com" to "experts-exchange.com"?

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader why. :)

I guess the opposite is the case with "therapist.com" ;) (though both possibilities have different DNS A records).
That one has only faded into obscurity in the last 5 years or so. I remember specifically searching for programming related content on Google as late as 2012-2013 and getting Experts Exchange results. I search every single day now for programming related content though and haven't seen an Experts Exchange result in at least the last 3-4 years.
Happily — and for all of its faults — StackOverflow has killed EE in Google results. (Launched in 2008.)
Yes! I actually found some answers there back in the day.

The trick was to scroll down all the way to the bottom to see them.

I remember the only reason I installed the GreaseMonkey plugin on Firefox was to have a script that would scrub ExpertsExchange from Google search results. Prior to StackOverflow, it had incredible SEO for tech questions.

Opportunities seem so obvious in retrospect :)