Quora

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Quora
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Knowledge organization
languages English , Spanish , French , Italian , German .
operator Quora, Inc.
editorial staff Adam D'Angelo
Charlie Cheever
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On-line June 2009
https://de.quora.com/

Quora is an American company whose aim is to provide answers to specific questions on the Internet. Quora was founded in 2009. The made-up word is based on quorum (polls, votes).

history

  • Adam D'Angelo, 2011

  • Charlie Cheever, 2009

Quora was founded in June 2009 as a digital directory assistance service by Adam D'Angelo (former CTO of Facebook ), Charlie Cheever and others. The beta version went online in December 2009, and the service has been available to the public and free of charge since June 21, 2010. In order to be able to use Quora, you need to log in by email , Google account or Facebook account.

In March 2010, Quora received funding from Benchmark Capital . The startup is rumored to be valued at $ 86 million in 2010. In 2017, Quora received a further $ 85 million from investors in a financing round D.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is one of the company's advisors .

Quora has been in Spanish since August 2016, French and Italian versions were added in spring 2017, and a German-language edition in July 2017.

functionality

Right from the start, the founders tried to build up an elite group of users by recruiting well-known figures from the technology world as experts to answer questions. AOL founder Steve Case explained in eight steps how the dot-com bubble burst. The Google product manager Nate Smith answered the question of how images with certain colors are searched for in Google image search. The Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz explained the background to the Facebook film The Social Network .

The aim of Quora is to provide users with answers to any question they may have. Quora wants to build a knowledge database that should make a search on Wikipedia or Google superfluous. Similar to the well-known networks Twitter and Wikipedia, Quora allows you to move from question to question using links and thus follow your interests. There are also functions similar to those of microblogging services and other social networks ; so users can follow others or subscribe to topics.

In Quora, the articles are usually in the form of a listicle , i. that is, they read like lists. Example: A visitor to the site asks why people pretend to be someone else. A screenwriter's answers start with:

  • if you're in the movie business, you do it because you're an actor.
  • if you're in the crime business, you do it to avoid getting caught.
  • if you're in politics, you do it to show the world a good face ...

On Quora, however, there are often questions that a Google search could have answered more quickly, such as "Where is Vienna?" or "How many inhabitants does Austria have?" These are repeatedly rejected by users.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Expanding Quora Beyond English Into Spanish . In: The Quora Blog . 2nd August 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Quora: Knowledge platform starts in German . In: t3n . 11th July 2017.
  3. ↑ Quora, the highly acclaimed collection of questions and answers, launched on June 21, 2010 for the public.
  4. ↑ Benchmark Capital invested in the startup at an estimated value of $ 86 million on the valuation date. . techcrunch.com. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ Josh Constine: Q&A app Quora valued around $ 1.8 billion in $ 85 million fundraise . In: TechCrunch . April 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ Wales' profile page on quora.com
  7. ↑ Steve Case: What factors led to the bursting of the Internet bubble of the late 90's? , Quora. January 14, 2011. Accessed March 4, 2011. 
  8. ^ Nicole Franziska Kögler: The future of the knowledge collection , time online . January 12, 2011. Accessed March 4, 2011. 
  9. ↑ Jenna Wortham: Facebook Helps Social Start-Ups Gain Users , New York Times . March 12, 2010. Retrieved May 29, 2010. 
  10. ↑ Tom Simonite: Questions for Quora , Technology Review . January 21, 2011. Accessed March 4, 2011. 
  11. ↑ translated from English

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