| Wall Street Journal: |
Hazards of the Buzzy Startup in Light of Tumblr Buy
— Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Puts Spotlight on Highfliers Like Pinterest, Quora With Little Revenue — Yahoo Inc.'s $1.1 billion deal for Tumblr Inc. is a fairy-tale ending for the blogging site, which fetched a rich price despite its meager revenue.
| Greg Finn / Search Engine Land: |
Klout Integration Pushes Human Powered ‘Expert’ Answers Atop Bing's Search Results
— From Yahoo! to Facebook to Quora, social sites have long been struggling to leverage the Q&A format successfully. Today Klout officially enters the ‘social answers’ space with a unique proposition …
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Quora finally introduces full-text search to boost content discovery
— Social Q&A site Quora has finally introduced full-text search in a move that will improve content discovery and is likely to be much welcomed by anyone who has ever used the service. — A company blog post confirmed …
| Eliza Kern / GigaOM: |
Quora keeps searching for growth, this time with user-generated product reviews
— In searching for a way to connect with users, some companies gear up for infrequent but splashy updates, hoping that dramatic shifts will catch people's attention. With Quora, the company is clearly trying …
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Quora Sets Up a Leaky Pay Wall — But for Registrations, Not Money
— Quora has been under fire in recent days and months for increasing efforts to mandate that users register and/or download its apps in order to fully experience the site's user-contributed content.
| Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Blog: |
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora.
— I was browsing the web today, as I often do, with my iPhone on the can. (Yeah, you do it too, don't front.) — A link to an interesting Q&A on Quora came along, so I clicked. — And got this. — Wow. This is bold, even for Quora.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Quora Launches Blogging Platform With Mobile Text Editor To Give Every Author A Built-In Audience
— The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically distributes posts …
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D'Angelo
— To say that I have had a contentious relationship with former Facebook chief technology officer Adam D'Angelo's three-year-old startup Quora would be an understatement. I've had my reasons for disagreeing with some of its policies relating to the content.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Quora Plans To Expand Beyond Q&A, Hints Blogging Platform Could Give Anyone An Audience
— “Today Quora is largely questions and answers, but that is not the ideal format for all knowledge. Other formats will gradually be added as we scale up,” Quora co-founder Adam D'Angelo wrote yesterday on the company blog.
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