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on Jan 22, 2014
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How Quora Onboards New Users
Onboarded is a euphemism. Quora belongs at #1 on the dark patterns sites, and I wish google would allow me to ban it from search results.
augustocallejas
on Jan 22, 2014
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I remembered Google had an option to block certain domains from your search results, but that feature was removed last year:
http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/03/google-discontinues-site-bl...
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on Jan 22, 2014
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And if google uses pagerank, and there is no content to link to, how do they rise so highly?
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on Jan 22, 2014
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they certainly open up to googlebots. Human generated content opened to bots but not to humans. bad SciFi...
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on Jan 23, 2014
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The claim they don't open up to googlebots, otherwise they'd be on the wrongs side of the TOS and get banned.
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on Jan 22, 2014
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There's a Personal blocklist chrome extension if that helps.
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on Jan 22, 2014
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I got this extension just for Quora. Currently, Quora is the only site that I block from my search results.
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on Jan 23, 2014
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Similar to me: I have two sites blocked, Quora being one of them.
I got it for w3schools, though.
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on Jan 23, 2014
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Three here: quora, w3schools and expertsexchange
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on Jan 23, 2014
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