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Quora is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. Its publisher, Quora, Inc., is based in Mountain View, California. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers.
Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. They made this site for those who cannot find appropriate answers to a question. General questions are available, of almost every topic. This site is also made for students who desire to explore topics in-depth.
Quora's base of users grew quickly, beginnning with spikes in December 2010. As of April 2017, Quora claimed to have 190 million monthly unique visitors, up from 100 million a year earlier.
In June 2011, Quora redesigned its website, in order to make information discovery and navigation easier.Quora released an official iPhone app on September 29, 2011, followed by an Android app on September 5, 2012.
In September 2012, Quora announced that co-founder Charlie Cheever was stepping back from a day-to-day role at the firm, although he would continue in an advisory role.
In January 2013, Quora launched a blogging platform.
Quora launched full text search of questions and answers on its website on March 20, 2013,and extended the feature to mobile devices in late May 2013. It also announced in May 2013 that all its usage metrics had tripled relative to the same time in the prior year.In November 2013, Quora introduced a feature called Stats to allow ll Quora users to see summary and detailed statistics regarding how many people had viewed, upvoted, followed, and shared their questions and answers. TechCrunch reported that, although Quora had no immediate plans for monetization, they believed that search ads would likely be their eventual source of revenue.
In April 2014, it was announced that Quora was raising $80 million from Tiger Global at a reported $900 million valuation. Quora was also one of the members of the Summer 2014 Y Combinator batch.
In March 2016, Quora acquired Parlio online community website.In April of that year, the company also began a limited rollout of advertising on the site.
In October 2016, Quora launched Quora en español to the public.Following this announcement in early 2017, a beta of Quora in French was announced.According to this last announcement, the next languages Quora will be available in are German and Italian.
In April 2017, Quora was reported to have received Series D funding, giving it a valuation of $1.8 billion.
Quora has different ways to recommend questions to users:
Home feed questions recommendations : In this method each user will have a timeline that is personalized to their preferences. Quora also provide "interesting" questions that are relevant to the user's preferences. This will lead to the user to either answer that questions or refers another user to better answer it.
Daily Digest: In this method, Quora sends a daily email containing a set of questions with one answer that is deemed the best answer given a certain ranking requirements.
Related Questions: In this method, Whether the user is logged in or not, a set of questions that relates to the current questions will be recommended and displayed on the side. This will help the user navigate through the questions and find what is more relevant to their preference.
Ask to Answer: This feature enables the user to recommend another user that they see is fit or better suited to answer that question.
Quora is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. Its publisher, Quora, Inc., is based in Mountain View, California. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers.
Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. They made this site for those who cannot find appropriate answers to a question. General questions are available, of almost every topic. This site is also made for students who desire to explore topics in-depth.
Quora's base of users grew quickly, beginnning with spikes in December 2010. As of April 2017, Quora claimed to have 190 million monthly unique visitors, up from 100 million a year earlier.
In June 2011, Quora redesigned its website, in order to make information discovery and navigation easier.Quora released an official iPhone app on September 29, 2011, followed by an Android app on September 5, 2012.
In September 2012, Quora announced that co-founder Charlie Cheever was stepping back from a day-to-day role at the firm, although he would continue in an advisory role.
In January 2013, Quora launched a blogging platform.
Quora launched full text search of questions and answers on its website on March 20, 2013,and extended the feature to mobile devices in late May 2013. It also announced in May 2013 that all its usage metrics had tripled relative to the same time in the prior year.In November 2013, Quora introduced a feature called Stats to allow ll Quora users to see summary and detailed statistics regarding how many people had viewed, upvoted, followed, and shared their questions and answers. TechCrunch reported that, although Quora had no immediate plans for monetization, they believed that search ads would likely be their eventual source of revenue.
In April 2014, it was announced that Quora was raising $80 million from Tiger Global at a reported $900 million valuation. Quora was also one of the members of the Summer 2014 Y Combinator batch.
In March 2016, Quora acquired Parlio online community website.In April of that year, the company also began a limited rollout of advertising on the site.
In October 2016, Quora launched Quora en español to the public.Following this announcement in early 2017, a beta of Quora in French was announced.According to this last announcement, the next languages Quora will be available in are German and Italian.
In April 2017, Quora was reported to have received Series D funding, giving it a valuation of $1.8 billion.
Quora has different ways to recommend questions to users:
Home feed questions recommendations : In this method each user will have a timeline that is personalized to their preferences. Quora also provide "interesting" questions that are relevant to the user's preferences. This will lead to the user to either answer that questions or refers another user to better answer it.
Daily Digest: In this method, Quora sends a daily email containing a set of questions with one answer that is deemed the best answer given a certain ranking requirements.
Related Questions: In this method, Whether the user is logged in or not, a set of questions that relates to the current questions will be recommended and displayed on the side. This will help the user navigate through the questions and find what is more relevant to their preference.
Ask to Answer: This feature enables the user to recommend another user that they see is fit or better suited to answer that question.
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