Comments on: Quora gets $50 million. Q: Why? A: Because it can…

By: PenaAdela

PenaAdela — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:54:21 +0000

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By: Tim Gunter

Tim Gunter — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:32:42 +0000

Yeah but http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stackoverflow.com%2C+quora.com%2C+answers.yahoo.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Where is your God now?!

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:09:51 +0000

That is one answer you are not going to find on Quora.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:09:05 +0000

Thanks for the link Oz. Pretty illuminating.

By: Oz Har Adir

Oz Har Adir — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:27:13 +0000

Om, I think you’re very right, and one can add the Google Trends for websites graph to compare the traffic of Stackoverflow and Quora:
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=stackoverflow.com%2C+quora.com&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Outside of the US, the ration between Quora/Stackoverflow is about 1/10 (in the US its closer to 1/3, and neither of the service has been growing there lately)

By: Flux Research

Flux Research — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:18:39 +0000

I would love to see some real stats on Quora. They must be fantastic because there’s no way this could be a sign of an emerging investment bubble!

By: Hardik

Hardik — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:34:16 +0000

That’s true. Quora has a class, well above other shallow start ups.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:11:01 +0000

Quora is a huge black hole for one’s productive time. It’s very easy to pop in and then realize to your horror that you have just wasted 2 hours of your life on absolute trivia. That’s what Quora is about basically. Trivia. I have seen a member since last summer and can’t report on anything important that I have learned there.

The site also suffers from political infighting which leads to good but contrarian answers being downvoted into oblivion while the claptrap gets voted to the top.

It’s little more than a place for Silicon Valley wannabes to waste time while pretending that they belong to something cool.

By: Lawrence Black

Lawrence Black — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:25:54 +0000

It was ‘silly season’ when Color got 41m. Quora getting 50m isn’t surprising, or unwarranted; Quora isn’t going anywhere, if anything it’s just hitting the mainstream web. Time will tell though.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:18:19 +0000

As an early adopter of the site, for a while I thought this would be a good way to publish and learn. That is still the primary purpose of the site and it does have great content, especially if you are willing to spend time looking for it. However, is it a major Internet destination or a company with a stratospheric valuation, well, probably not. If the co-founders want to run it as a hobby project, perhaps not such a bad thing.