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The problem I see with Stack Exchange is that they are too highly ranked as a site in Google which means that the rubbish pages show up highly ranked.

A very common experience for me is to be searching for a solution to a problem. Follow a link to Stack Overflow to find a page where somebody has asked the question and been told they are asking the question in the wrong place.

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>The problem I see with Stack Exchange is that they are too highly ranked as a site in Google which means that the rubbish pages show up highly ranked.

Considering that before "Stack Exchange" it was a useless site called "Experts Exchange," it's an improvement.

Contrary anecdote: I've several times had the experience of Googling for a question and finding my own Stack Overflow question as a result, and using the answer to solve my problem (again).

I am reminded of a story about my retired scientist grandfather. When he first used the Internet, he did some searches about his field of study. A few pages in, he thought, "this feels familiar" and checked the author of the paper he was reading.

He had written it, about 30 years earlier.

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