[mort96]

Yeah, I've noticed this too: seeing a Quora question that's exactly what I'm looking for, clicking it, and not actually finding the question which the SERP said was there. At least this used to happen back when I actually got Quora results, I'm not sure if its search ranking has dropped or if Quora results get caught by my banner blindness these days.

There are some sites which will generate a bunch of pages which show up in Google searches but which are really just site searches. You google a thing, and a site pops up with a page called "Articles about the thing", but when you go there you see it's just a site search for "the thing". I wonder if Quora is doing something similar? Maybe the question doesn't actually exist, and the page in the Google search result is just a disguised search page?

[jfengel]

For some insane reason, Quora's default view is to show you "answers to related questions".

If you click the dropdown box in the upper left, you can change from "All related" to "Answers". That should turn up the answers that the search engine was seeing.

I can generally give you at least some explanation for why Quora behaves the way it does, but I'm afraid I just toss my hands up at this one.