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I find Quora through DDG (not sure why this is specifically about Google), but regardless, 1/3 times the result is valuable. Quora often shows up when the other
by lucb1e 7y ago
I find Quora through DDG (not sure why this is specifically about Google), but regardless, 1/3 times the result is valuable. Quora often shows up when the other results look unreliable or ad farms - not that Quora's replies are so accurate, but about 1/3 seem okay.
Loading a few pages from browsing history, I don't see any walled garden.
LinkedIn results on the other hand... Google/DDG clearly didn't index the login page, so LinkedIn apparently shows certain content to the crawler that they aren't showing to the user, trying to get ranked higher for that query than the login page would be. Not sure how that isn't seen as fraudulent from the search engine's perspective.
- joegahona 7y agoMy experience is the same. When I do get Quora, I do not have to sign up, and it’s usually valuable. I would add that the presence of a Quora result at the top of search-engine results usually indicates that my query is freaking arcane and specific, and Google is doing its best to show me _something_. In other words, it’s not as though Quora results are taking slots away from better results.
- lucb1e 7y ago> usually indicates that my query is freaking arcane and specific Exactly this. (That's what I meant with "Quora often shows up when the other results look unreliable or ad farms", but I didn't phrase that quite right.)
- Tenoke 7y agoI agree. I often enough search for stuff with no useful answers except for something on quora that can point me in the right direction.
- crispyporkbites 7y agoThis is about google because google is the only search engine on the internet. Personally I use DDG but the % of people using it is approximately zero.
- sm4rk0 7y agoIt's hard to accept but it's true (0.1%): https://www.webfx.com/blog/seo/2019-search-market-share/ https://www.webfx.com/blog/seo/2019-search-market-share/