[Shog9]

Did you ever try passing one of those links to a colleague? They were doing some referrer-checking at one point - if you weren't coming from Google, you didn't get the answer.

[JTon]

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

[sp332]

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.

[garethadams]

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...

[slig]

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

[criley2]

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

Because it is.

[alecsmart1]

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

[notatoad]

better yet, just never link to or use quota. if they're going to be scummy, don't support them.

[hrasyid]

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

[dspillett]

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.

[rmc]

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

[Hovertruck]

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