New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results

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Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results
747 by babuskov | 275 comments on Hacker News.
Finding answers to basically any question is now behind a walled garden that requires that you create an account. This is the exact thing expertsexchange did before StackOverflow came and ate their lunch. What do you think about it?

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