Quora wraps up its summer of mobile by releasing an iPad app and celebrating 3X growth
Quora has a new iPad app and some big user metrics to celebrate. But the company still doesn’t feel ready to make money.
Quora looks to the crowd to solve machine learning problems
Quora wants to improve its machine learning algorithms to boost the quality of its question-and-answer product, and toward that end it’s just announced a new contest open to programmers worldwide.
Quora keeps searching for growth, this time with user-generated product reviews
What’s the latest from Quora? The site is launching formal reviews for content like books, movies, and technology, allowing users to provide specific feedback on these popular topics in a more structured format.
Google has a problem with “long-tail” searches, and it needs Quora to help fix it
Google is the undisputed champ of search, but it’s much better with “head” searches than it is with “long-tail” searches — and that’s a problem. Narendra Reddy, of Wignite, says Google can address that by purchasing the expert network Quora.
Is Quora’s quest for growth worth alienating key users?
With $50 million in the bank this summer and co-founder Adam D’Angelo saying the company wants to grow to 100 times its current size, Quora is clearly on a quest for new users. But the company needs to weigh carefully what it’s worth to get there.
Medium and Quora aren’t the rebirth of content farms — they’re more like curation engines
Are new blogging platforms like Medium, Quora, Svbtle and LinkedIn’s Influencers program an attempt to recreate the bad old days of “content farms?” Not really — their focus is much more on quality content than on direct monetization.
Quora gets into the publishing business with new blogging platform
Looking for a new platform for blogging, and finding that existing sites aren’t sufficient? You might check out Quora’s new blogging platform, which it plans to release Wednesday, that will allow users to create posts on the site and share information.
My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo
Former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo believes that the future is about creating more knowledge and adding a layer of reputation to the fast-growing internet. And that is why he started Quora, his first real attempt at being a startup CEO.
Quora chips away at getting more answers with “online now” feature
In an effort to keep people engaged and answering questions on Quora, the company is rolling out a new feature Monday that allows users to ask questions of Quora power answerers who happen to be online at the time.
Pinterest fights Chinese cyber-squatter
Cyber-squatting has been around for years but one Chinese man has especially aggressive in grabbing the names of popular US start-ups like Square and Etsy. More troubling for the companies, the man is also filing for trademarks.