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This is largely platform’s fault though. Quora had every opportunity to stop site spammers from posting non-informative answers just to farm clicks for the blog posts they link to for the “full” answer.

Mind boggling that Google hasn’t penalised them since years ago.



Google didn't penalize Pinterest either. In Google image search, Pinterest results are abundant but clicking on them and viewing them requires a sign-up on Pinterest.

I still remember the good old days of Quora; it was a nice era but it's gone...




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