# Experts Exchange

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{{Short description|Website for computer questions}}
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| owner          = Randy Redberg
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'''Experts Exchange''' ('''EE''') is a website for people in [information technology](/source/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".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10000001/Case-sensitivite-Win31-HTML-Editor.html|title=Case sensitivite Win31 HTML Editor|publisher=Experts Exchange|date=1996-10-08}}</ref>

Experts Exchange went bankrupt in 2001<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geekswithblogs.net/gyoung/articles/60933.aspx|title=Patterns aren't just for software. (Copy of Experts Exchange's newsletter on 2005/10/04)|author=Young, Greg|access-date=2008-02-24}}</ref> after venture capitalists moved the company to [San Mateo, CA](/source/San_Mateo%2C_CA), and was brought back largely through the efforts of unpaid volunteers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.experts-exchange.com/Community_Support/Input/Q_20462342.html#7754371|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729152807/http://www.experts-exchange.com/Community_Support/Input/Q_20462342.html%237754371|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-29|title=Expert-Exchange's Topic|publisher=Experts-Exchange|date=2003-01-18|access-date=2007-02-12}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.experts-exchange.com/threeMillionSolutions.jsp|title=Experts-Exchange 3 million solutions|access-date=2011-04-04|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426152310/http://www.experts-exchange.com/threeMillionSolutions.jsp|archive-date=26 April 2011}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.experts-exchange.com|title=Experts-Exchange.com|access-date=2024-06-24}}</ref>

== 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==<!-- PLEASE RESPECT ALPHABETICAL ORDER -->
{{Portal|Internet}}
* [Internet forum](/source/Internet_forum)
* [Stack Exchange](/source/Stack_Exchange)
* [Virtual community](/source/Virtual_community)

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.experts-exchange.com Experts Exchange]

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