Techtarget and Search Exchange -- Heavy and Cumbersome
While searching for some tips on the potential possibility of managing a tiny vmware-server v1 machine with a temporary VCenter (4) server, I stumbled on yet another of those Expert Exchange-type sites: Techtarget, it looks to be called. Specifically, I found my way to their SearchVMware sub-site.
The routine is typical of them all: tease you with a paragraph, and lock anything useful behind a paywall. If this didn't present a few concerns, I wouldn't be thinking about it a moment past that, and thus wouldn't have a thing to write about.
The routine is typical of them all: tease you with a paragraph, and lock anything useful behind a paywall. If this didn't present a few concerns, I wouldn't be thinking about it a moment past that, and thus wouldn't have a thing to write about.
- What are the search engine implications - specifically, bannination for baiting and switching the search terms with different (reduced) content? I seem to remember a bunch of similar schemes were shut down a decade ago. While those guys were stuffing unrelated crap keywords in white-on-white text in the hopes of luring more irrelevant searchers to their site, what these guys may be doing - luring searchers with one set of data, presenting something much worse - does appear to be a sale of their reputation under a false pre-text.
- What's the best way to config a black hole for these useless sites? They offer no value to me, and I'd like to ensure I never, ever even have these sites show up in my results. It's a time waster, really, and I'd like my internet to exclude all the baiters and switchers.
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