Layoffs hit Quora

Re:Layoffs hit Quora by codingslave on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:16AM (#22145054)

Sure but atleast Quora did the hard work of building the website, getting the users, etc. They own that. I think we need to increase awareness and outcry about google stealing content from websites. They should be required to pay part of the revenue from page views to the content owners.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by jzb on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:42PM (#22204867)

I'm not sure Quora's problems are entirely on Google. The site has a shit reputation due to the whole "create an account if you want to look at anything." In fact, didn't Quora try really hard to game google results to funnel people to its site? I've no love for Google's steady erosion of the Web, but Quora strikes me as a company that is just sad it hasn't managed to get big enough to do what Google is doing.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by mam2 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:25PM (#22150197)

And google did the effort to build the NLP...

There is no moral high ground in this story.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by bekman on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:25AM (#22151241)

Making a platform for people to create content and building an algorithm to scrap(steal) that content is a very different thing.

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Re:Layoffs hit Quora by mam2 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @11:12AM (#22152755)

This a completely useless academic discussion.. some people build stuf, some stuff bring money and other dont.

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