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0 pointsJTon12y ago0 comments

Oh really, I had no idea they were doing this. Any idea why?

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They did that for a while, but Google implemented a policy that what gets shown to the Googlebot has to be the same as what a user would actually see. EE got delisted from Google for violating that policy, and ever since then, they have the answer way at the bottom of the page no matter what.

garethadams12y ago

Actually, no.

Click through to this recently answered question from Google's search results[1] and scroll down to see the answer. Then open the resulting link[2] in an incognito tab and poof no answer

[1]: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=experts+exchange+%22Troubl...

[2]: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Script...

slig12y ago

Too bad Google doesn't care anymore, or else they'd do the same to Quora.

criley212y ago

Can we finally start calling Quora the spiritual successor to Experts Exchange?

Because it is.

alecsmart112y ago

Just put ?share=1 at the end of any Quora link to view the full page without any login.

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hrasyid12y ago

Quora contents tend to have bad search engine ranking, so probably Google still cares about that

dspillett12y ago

That had been Google's policy for some time, they just started enforcing it for a while. IIRC it was around the same time BMW and a couple of other big names were temporarily de-listed for keyword stuffing and similar shenanigans.

rmc12y ago

Why did they do that? To make the site less useful unless you'd paid up. i.e. "to encourage you to pay".

Hovertruck12y ago

Because Google wouldn't list them unless clicking the link revealed the answer, I believe.

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