Layoffs hit Quora • Hacker News Board

Re: Layoffs hit Quora

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Post by LZ_Khan » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 8:43 PM UTC

I don't understand what's going on with Quora. It used to be full of insightful answers that improved the quality of my life. But now my feed is cluttered with clickbait's being recommended by random people saying "Good article." and -- just in general -- very low quality answers written by people without experience and who fail to back up their claims with evidence. It's become a big source of frustration reading these "verbal vomit" answers and trying to sort through the misinformation.

Whoever the ML engineers on the recommendation stack were.. really fucked up imo.

Re: Layoffs hit Quora

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Post by jzb » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 7:42 PM UTC

codingslave wrote: post #152

geofft wrote: post #73

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> The content is simply extracted and stolen. How can we have a thriving internet when such monopolistic and profit driven practices stifle innovation and creation on the web? TripAdvisor, Quora, and Yelp are just as rent-seeking and profit-driven as Google. If I write a review on TripAdvisor or Yelp or answer a question on Quora, I, the author, certainly don't get compensated for it. If Quora fails and another compa…

Sure but atleast Quora did the hard work of building the website, getting the users, etc. They own that. I think we need to increase awareness and outcry about google stealing content from websites. They should be required to pay part of the revenue from page views to the content owners.

I'm not sure Quora's problems are entirely on Google. The site has a shit reputation due to the whole "create an account if you want to look at anything." In fact, didn't Quora try really hard to game google results to funnel people to its site? I've no love for Google's steady erosion of the Web, but Quora strikes me as a company that is just sad it hasn't managed to get big enough to do what Google is doing.

Re: Layoffs hit Quora

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Post by jjeaff » Fri, Feb 07, 2020, 7:40 PM UTC

paulie_a wrote: post #277

jjeaff wrote: post #260

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They were sued by Rap Genius for a similar practice and I believe Rap Genius won.

I can't find anything about a lawsuit but they were using shady seo methods and Google deindexed them. Rapgunius stopped what they were doing and apologized for the dishonest behavior.

Looks like rap Genius hasn't filed suit as of yet. But they published the findings of their sting operation to prove that Google was stealing lyrics from their site. I must have been conflating two separate stories.