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Say what you want about how bad Quora content is, Quora has the most engaging email digest I ever knew. 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.
Exactly same to me as well!
> a 10-year-old question-and-answer startup Has the word "startup" simply replaced "company"? I'm thinking we should at least draw the line at a full decade.
Often people use the word "startup" simply to mean "private company which plans on an IPO but hasn't had one yet" (as opposed to public companies, and private companies that have no plan to ever IPO) Sometimes a private company can take 10 or more years to reach the IPO stage. This is probably especially true for bootstrapped companies which can grow at a more steady pace than those VC-backed from very early on
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…
I haven't used Yelp in years. AFAIK it's a USA only thing. Most other countries I've visited there are far more reviews on Google than Yelp. No idea how I can trust either of them (the reviews, not the companies) Yelp, yes the writing is on the wall. An no, google didn't steal anything from yelp. They just let users review places and post pictures.
TripAdvisor also has somewhat reasonable coverage internationally.
In my experience, none of these sites are great but they’re probably better than walking into a random restaurant.
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> no one seems to know why there’s less liquidity there It's because JPMorgan Chase and friends think there is too much risk of intraday bankruptcy right now and no one wants to be left hanging on their loan.
here's an interesting thought experiment.. what happens to your loan when your bank goes bankrupt ?
Or the entire bank can be purchased/merged in which case your loan becomes an asset on the purchaser's balance sheet.
Bankruptcy doesn't mean "all bets are off".
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Thanks for the tip and I mean that genuinely but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience.
>but we shouldn’t need to do that to have a decent user experience. Not only that, this (as well as many other simple "tricks" or "workarounds") creates (arbitrarily) two kinds of users, those that know the trick and those that don't (and likely create two different sets of user opinions). I mean, to me (because I know the little trick) usage of Quora is relatively painless (though I still try my best to avoiding usi…
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I don’t get it either. They claim 300m MAUs and healthy answer growth. While it’s SEO is fantastic, the actual content is pretty marginal. I have no idea what the ultimate point is like I do with, say, Wkipedia.
The odd thing about Quora is that there's actually a lot of good content, but it doesn't show up in search results because the questions that trigger it are of the format "Tell me something interesting about history / technology / whatever" The "hard fact" questions have answers that suck. Absolutely. SO is wildly better for that. It's really a place to go to follow certain people you can rely on to post interesting…
> a 10-year-old question-and-answer startup Has the word "startup" simply replaced "company"? I'm thinking we should at least draw the line at a full decade.
Often people use the word "startup" simply to mean "private company which plans on an IPO but hasn't had one yet" (as opposed to public companies, and private companies that have no plan to ever IPO) Sometimes a private company can take 10 or more years to reach the IPO stage. This is probably especially true for bootstrapped companies which can grow at a more steady pace than those VC-backed from very early on
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…
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.