Why Quora will be a slow burner success
There may be no service on Earth full of as much spurious misinformation, confusion and doubt as Yahoo Answers. There’s a sense of 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters with the occasional answer breaking for freedom with a whisper of welcome sanity.
By contrast, I think Quora has more potential, and many agree. However, there are a good number of people out there who think it’ll never expand its appeal beyond the small group of techies who are currently singing its praises.
I think they’re missing the point and underestimating where Quora is in its lifespan.
January 31st, 2011
I’m reliably informed that every day, Google serves about 3 billion searches globally. I didn’t count that myself but I’m taking it on good authority.
But what if instead, every query was saved as a unique page accompanied by hand-researched and written answers created by a community of curators?
What if questions were semantically tagged to show the most popular related queries, giving a quick idea of what’s important about a subject beyond the Wikipedia question of “what is it?”
Could something like that offer an alternative to traditional search engines?
January 7th, 2011