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The spike probably had a lot to do with the release of Tron: Legacy on December 17 who had a character named Quorra which could easily be misspelled as Quora. The trend for Quorra largely follows this spike as seen at http://www.google.com/trends?q=quorra&ctab=0&geo=all... Nothing happend to Quora.com.
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That's the problem with Quora for me. When it first started to get big, I tried searching for things that weren't startup- or Silicon Valley-related, and the results were practically nonexistent. Maybe that's changed since then, but it didn't give me a good first impression. Not that there's anything wrong with a Q&A site for startups - that may well be a very good niche - but Quora clearly seems to want to be someth…
This is slowly changing. For instance, see: http://www.quora.com/Ashton-Kutcher
Interestingly, a large chunk of the traffic comes from SF and the Bay Area. That leads me to believe that Quora is to a large extent a Bay Area echo-chamber.
What's not to like?
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> The rate of people who would visit your new product and then immediately leave would be high. Generally, this is called bounce rate. Would that be a bad thing? Even those that left would then know that your site existed, which isn't without value. As far as names matching a character in a movie, I think it would be very difficult to make a suit out of this. If anything, you could then change your name slightly, and…
They'd have a negative association with it, since the site didn't give them what they wanted. You don't want to start your first impression with a negative.
Google Trends monitors search terms, not traffic. The Google Trends graph is relative to the total search volume for the keyword Quora. Web traffic is a very different thing. It's how many people actually visit a site. Here's an estimate of Quora's traffic: http://www.quantcast.com/Quora.com You can see that while they've experienced a significant peak in traffic that has resulted in a recent decrease, they're doing…
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This is slowly changing. For instance, see: http://www.quora.com/Ashton-Kutcher
Ha. I guess you don't realise he's on there because he's an investor in early tech companies in the Bay Area? And he's been there for ages.
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They'd have a negative association with it, since the site didn't give them what they wanted. You don't want to start your first impression with a negative.
Possibly the majority of people would know what it was before clicking, because the search engine description would tell them. In that case they're just fulfilling their curiosity, which can only be good.