There are a lot of different nuances to answer this question. We’re not going to move Experts Exchange because they don’t violate our quality guidelines, or at least they currently don’t. They don’t cloak; some people think that they do cloak, but if you go and look at the cache page and try and get an answer, click on the cached page and go down to the very bottom, the content is there. It’s not like they’re showing different content to Googlebot than they are to users.
If they did, that would be a valid reason for removing Experts Exchange, or any other site.
However, if you use SearchWiki, you can remove Experts Exchange from individual queries. It’s not just for that one query; we’ll often remove it for related queries.
If you really don’t like a particular URL on Exerts Exchange or even the site, you can sort of click to remove that, do a search for them and remove them, and all that sort of stuff in SearchWiki.
We’ll try to learn over time that you don’t like Experts Exchange.
‘Why do they rank so high? They look so spammy…’
Well, if they’re not violating our quality guidelines, just because someone does or doesn’t like someone’s website, is not a good enough reason to try to take someone out. We try to maintain that quote by Voltaire ‘I may not like hat you say, but I’ll defend to death your ability to say it’.
Just because someone says something objectionable to us, it doesn’t mean that we’ll remove it from our index.
So, whether you think it’s spammy, that’s up to you, you can use SearchWiki. But it doesn’t violate our quality guidelines, and we try to be very careful about that. You don’t just remove a site just because you don’t like it, for example. It has to be an actual violation of our quality guidelines, or some sort of legal remover or something like that, like a virus, a malware or Trojan.
You can still do it for yourself, but unless something changes, I don’t expect us to remove it from our search results.
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