Please remove Quora links...

Every time I click a Quora link it takes me to a completely unrelated question to the one I clicked on.

I swear that site is doing this deliberately to make it seem like it has more traffic than it does.

Once upon a time Quora had reasonably accessible information. Now I find it nearly unusable and only go there as a last desperate effort which is generally fruitless. Pinterest is annoying, but generally you can still view some content. What's annoying is trying to download, copy, or isolate content there. If all you want to do is view an image, Google can typically still pull the image out and make it viewable from the search. The problem only arises if you try to go in and see the original.

The headline is actually wrong. Google did not do anything to Twitter. Twitter fucked up their own SEO by removing access to its content.

The latest in a seemingly never-ending series of self-owns. Apart from the stress it must put on their devs, it's been entertaining

Crawl issues I am sure but also user experience issues. Google is sensitive to sending visitors to sites where metrics indicate users do not, like bounce rates etc. I don't use twt but if it is the case you have the be logged in to see anything now, a non-logged in user will click a link from Google hit a login page, and use the back button. I would assume Google will see that as a bad search result and use it less.

Spez is already doing his best work to fuck over the platform. Are you certain Elon could do any better?

Great now can they remove Pinterest too please??

Yeah, if the content is walled off from the public, there's not much point indexing it

It's a shame it's come to this, but there are literal crazy people at the helm over at Twitter...

So this decision is solely because the results can no longer be viewed by non-logged-in users.

Glad to see (semi) confirmation of this. It's the same reason paywall news sites are magically not paywalled (or less paywalled) when coming from a Google search. If you're showing Google something different than what you're showing users, Google is going to remove or down rank your results.

What makes this more "news-worthy" is that Google and Twitter have had a great relationship for many years and Twitter is typically among the top results (for some topics). Obviously Musk has been destroying that relationship over the past year.

God, I hated expert sexchange so much. It was a blessing when stack overflow started.

It could be something like that. And stop calling me Shirley.

You are assuming he has one. Before he overpaid for Twitter, he probably thought he would turn it into a successful version of TruthSocial. Then reality came knocking. Now, he may have no idea what he's going to do.

When you were a kid, did you ever take apart an old vacuum cleaner or power tool, thinking "I'm going to make something great out of this"? Then, when you had all the pieces lying around you, you wondered why you even started because you have no idea what you are going to do now? That may be Elon at the moment. He's looking at the parts of his mom's treasured vacuum cleaner, and wondering how he can blame it on the brother his parents never gave him.

He does not have one. He's just high on whatever it is he's taking.

At this point I’m half convinced spez was such an asshole to Reddits users because of how the community turned on his idol elon. I remember not longer than two years ago Reddit was basically musk circlejerk but this genius fucked up even that.

You're gonna have to be more specific. Which wife?

In that case let's thank him for spending few billions doing that! Thank you Elon :p