[moe]

then google seemed to delist them in a panda

And rightfully so. They were a pest, just like the spam-site by that Calamaris guy from Netscape around the same time.

Lesson learned: If you depend on search traffic then don't be obnoxious. Otherwise nobody will speak up for you when Google snaps your neck.

Hey Google, why is Quora (expert-sexchange 2.0) still polluting my search results anyway?

[x0x0]

i'm glad I'm not the only person who read it as expert sexchange every time

Atwood and Spolsky get a lifetime of karma for stack overflow

[codinghorror]

Could be worse, could be a Yahoo Answers result.

[calbear81]

Yahoo! Answers results are often quite entertaining. I treat it as a comedy site.

[bduerst]

At least you don't have to log in with a social network to see the answers.

[cheepin]

Here you go. Not super efficient, but a little bookmarklet to get rid of the most annoying things about Quora

javascript:(function(){function a(c){var e=document.getElementsByTagName('*'),i;for(i in e){if((' '+e[i].className+' ').indexOf(' '+c+' ')>-1){e[i].style.display="none";}}}a("modal_signup_background");a("modal_signup_dialog");a("modal_signup_facepile");})();

[justincormack]

Easier just to ignore it completely, why should I waste my time on overriding their stupidity? Actually Google seem to be dropping them down the ranks, as I rarely see a Quora link now.

[rcfox]

Off topic, but this code blob broke the formatting of the HN comment page, causing text to extend horizontally off the screen. It'd be great if you (or a mod) could add some (4, I think?) spaces in front of your code to make it appear in a code/pre tag.

    Like this.

[motoboi]

I suppose you know that answers are on the bottom of the page. Right?

[lmm]

Yahoo Answers is nice and not at all spammy. Some of the answers are bad (and some of them are very good), but the site itself is clear and simple, and doesn't have the obnoxious login nonsense of Quora.