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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.
May 21, 2013, 1:30 AMIn context
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 …
May 8, 2013, 3:15 PMIn context
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 …
Mar 21, 2013, 9:00 AMIn context
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 …
Mar 6, 2013, 5:50 PMIn context
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.
Feb 15, 2013, 1:20 AMIn context
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.
Feb 14, 2013, 12:45 AMIn context
Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:
Are Medium & Quora Just the Rebirth of Content Farms?   —  Three years ago a terrible collection of beasts rose from the sea and threatened the Internet we love so dear.  These “content farms” churned out low quality prose in SEO-friendly formats to try and garner traffic from Google and other search engines.
Jan 28, 2013, 12:00 AMIn context
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 …
Jan 23, 2013, 5:10 PMIn context
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.
Jan 7, 2013, 8:35 AMIn context
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.
Dec 21, 2012, 1:50 PMIn context

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