Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.

Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.

Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.

@carnage4life btw, this is it now
@selfisekai @carnage4life Bitch, you just ain't trying hard enough. Them eggs with run with the appropriate pressure applied.
@selfisekai @carnage4life is this what SEO looks like in 2023?

@selfisekai @carnage4life it doesn’t matter if they fix one query because if you rephrase it slightly it still gives the wrong answer.

If you ask why eggs melt it’s too polite to correct you.

@stormcauldron @selfisekai @carnage4life if you heat eggs enough they become plasma
@selfisekai @carnage4life What happened to Quora is, in a way, more tragic than what happened to Twitter, which is ruined, but has replacements—Facebook, Mastodon, etc. Quora doesn't. As a general Q&A site, it was second to none. For some reason, in 2018, the company went all in on unnecessary ML experiments and other pointless features. They possibly improved some short-term metrics, but the parts that made the site good are hopelessly ruined. Now there is no good general Q&A site :(
@aharoni @selfisekai @carnage4life Yes there is: ask.metafilter.com :)
@clarissawam Thanks, I'll check it out. Does it allow languages other than English?
@aharoni No, sorry. It’s a US site and tho it has many international members, it’s still fairly US-centric. Full of knowledgeable nerds tho!

@aharoni

@selfisekai @carnage4life

Agreed, but reddit comes the closest. When I get annoying crap SEOing their way to the top of my search results, I always add "reddit" to the end of my query and usually get much more useful results. But I do miss the golden years of quora

@selfisekai @carnage4life i just checked and it gets even funnier
@selfisekai @carnage4life You must be using the wrong type of eggs. Easter eggs and Kinder eggs melt perfectly well:-)