Layoffs hit Quora

Re:Layoffs hit Quora by charlesju on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:59PM (#22143875)

I think there is a symbiotic relationship here. Google still needs to feed enough traffic into their main training sets so it can keep training. If these training sets were to fully die (or become stale) then the Google NLP would be equally useless. So Google has an inherent desire to prop up Quora, if anything.

Anecdotally, Quora has taken a top spot in SEO alongside Stackoverflow for a lot of my searches (and Reddit). I think that over time this will improve actually and I don't think this layoff is because they are doing poorly, rather the opposite, I predict they're doing well enough to go IPO soon and need to clean house.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by getgoogled on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:16PM (#22144399)

Right, i don't think google displays the entire quora answer set, i see the google snippets of a quora answer set as an ad the click the quora link and read all the quora answers. I certainly don't trust that Google has actually extracted the complete set of valuable info from a quora page. Just like Stackoverflow i want to read many answers and many opinions. I would bet the when google presents a quora snippet, the quora page has MORE traffic.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by tonyedgecombe on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:26AM (#22145538)

I wouldn't call it symbiotic, parasitic might be closer to the truth.

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