Experts Exchange
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| Available in | English |
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| Owner | Randy Redberg |
| URL | experts-exchange |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Launched | 1996 |
| Current status | Active |
Experts Exchange (EE) is a website for people in information technology (IT) related jobs to ask each other for tech help, primarily through the use of a question-and-answer (Q&A) forum and published technical articles.
History
Experts Exchange went live in October 1996. The first question asked was for a "Case sensitive Win31 HTML Editor".[1]
Experts Exchange went bankrupt in 2001[2] after venture capitalists moved the company to San Mateo, CA, and was brought back largely through the efforts of unpaid volunteers.[3]
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.[4] Its users are mainly young to middle-aged males in the IT field.[5]
Marketing
Experts Exchange has marketed itself as "not unlike Stack Overflow or Quora," but with an emphasis on human Q&A and an encouragement to ask questions even if they've been asked before.[6]
Membership Model
Under their current model, Experts Exchange uses a hybrid of paid and free memberships. Users who participate and answer questions can become eligible for free membership known as "Expert Status" while other users can opt to pay for a membership and use the site solely for asking questions.
See also
References
- ^ "Case sensitivite Win31 HTML Editor". Experts Exchange. 8 October 1996.
- ^ Young, Greg. "Patterns aren't just for software. (Copy of Experts Exchange's newsletter on 2005/10/04)". Retrieved 24 February 2008.
- ^ "Expert-Exchange's Topic". Experts-Exchange. 18 January 2003. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2007.
- ^ "Experts-Exchange 3 million solutions". Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Audience profile for Experts-Exchange". Quantcast. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
- ^ "Experts-Exchange.com". Retrieved 24 June 2024.