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I doubt on the later part. You might wanna check this thread out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681
I read a few comments before I realized they were written in 2010, and not 2020. It's surprising how many of those predictions (easily most of the ones I read) seem completely applicable to the coming decade.
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Have you considered that Quora is failing because it's user-hostile? I do not visit Quora links on Google because I know it's going to tease me with a snippet and force me to login.
That plus it seems >90% of answers are guerilla advertising
Any company that relies on SEO content is basically going to disapear. Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes. Not only that, other lower ranked content can be verified to be "true" using neural network based NLP, meaning that the value of content has gone down. Google stole the business of q…
Have you considered that Quora is failing because it's user-hostile? I do not visit Quora links on Google because I know it's going to tease me with a snippet and force me to login.
It works really well for blocking quora from google results.
I used to enjoy Quora, but it lost its charm and I quit once my feed became mostly filled with questions such as: - As a software engineer, what makes you roll your eyes every time you hear it? - What did your mother say that made your jaw drop? - What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life? Those open questions just feel clickbait-y, with no real value added. I occasionally see questio…
* Did Picard violate the Prime Directive in TNG S6E13?
* If five ninjas attacked you, how you would you physically defeat them?
* Here's the intellectual take on Spiderman fighting Batman, do you agree?
* Men who have dated supermodels, what was it like?
I thought it was supposed to be a somewhat serious site but it obviously wasn't. I don't think I ever went back. Perhaps the whole point was just a glorified PHP BBS, with a nice theme, better seo, and SV in-crowd early adopters. I never got it.
Creepy and bad.
Unfortunate that layoffs don't start with upper management.
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Make that corpus licensed with a Creative Commons license where commercial use requires compensation, but non commercial use is freely permitted.
Not sure how that would help. I imagine currently its all rights reserved, and google is claiming that using their information is fair use.
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Have you considered that Quora is failing because it's user-hostile? I do not visit Quora links on Google because I know it's going to tease me with a snippet and force me to login.
I think it is just irrelevant to the web today. I don't think Quora has a future to be an independent business. To me Quora is just a more entitled/self-righteous version of Reddit, and much less fun.
Quora is a site that is somehow successful despite its product development decisions. They seem to constantly make the site and community worse with every update. There's still a decent amount of amazing valuable answers from real verified experts but the experience of using it is horrendous and I've completely stopped trying to write anything anymore.
Yeah I think the downfall of quora is partly due to their product managers decision making and the machine learning recommendation engine. Both of which are abysmal even with all that Harvard and Stanford talent they have
I thought the recommendation is pretty good in terms of catching some attention. What's wrong with it?
Every day they send me an email with some answers on topics I'm interested in, and I can't help but click on 6-8 of them from EACH email. The median CTR in any other of email digests recieved by me is zero.