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| 2010–2011 || || " January of 2010 and January of 2011, Quora grew a whopping 37,000% in usership, giving the website around 160,000 users at the time."<ref name="fusion360agency.com">{{cite web |title=3 Less Popular Social Media Platforms Worth Tapping Into for Overall Brand Success |url=https://fusion360agency.com/tag/advertising/page/9/ |website=fusion360agency.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref>Quora is reviewed extensively by the media in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/v-c-s-answer-yes-to-quora |title= V.C.'s Answer Yes to Quora |accessdate= 15 January 2020 |publisher= Nytimes.com |date= March 30, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2011-01-20-baig20_ST_N.htm |title=Social-networking site Quora has answers to your questions |accessdate= 15 January 2020 |work= USA Today |first=Edward C. |last=Baig }}</ref><ref name="tele">{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/8238788/Quora-will-be-bigger-than-Twitter.html |title=Quora will be bigger than Twitter |accessdate=15 January 2020 |publisher= Telegraph |location=London |first=Milo |last= Yiannopoulos|authorlink=Milo Yiannopoulos}}</ref>
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| 2012 || || "in 2012, Quora was valued at over $400 million."<ref name="fusion360agency.com"/>
| 2013 || || "Quora reported 50 percent growth"<ref>{{cite web |title=3 Growth Hacking Examples You Can Learn From |url=https://www.business2community.com/digital-marketing/3-growth-hacking-examples-can-learn-01432938 |website=business2community.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> "Quora released a full-text search of questions and answers"<ref name="vyrazu.com">{{cite web |title=How to make app like Quora |url=https://www.vyrazu.com/make-app-like-quora/ |website=vyrazu.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> "In 2013, Quora launched a blogging feature, where anyone or writers can share their knowledge"<ref>{{cite web |title=How Quora will help you in digital marketing? |url=https://www.curvearro.com/blog/how-quora-will-help-you-in-digital-marketing/ |website=curvearro.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2014 || || "In 2014, Quora joined the joins startup accelerator {{w|Y Combinator"}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Quora Works and Makes Money |url=https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/041916/how-quora-works-and-makes-money.asp |website=investopedia.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> "In 2014 when it was After drawing an $80 million funding from Tiger Global, Quora was the company is valued at $900 million. <ref name="vyrazu.com"/> Quora starts attracting continued controversy for using {{w|robots.txt}} to instruct [[w:Web crawler|crawlers]] such as the {{w|Internet Archive}}'s {{w|Wayback Machine}} to not index or archive the site.<ref name="vyrazuMill2014">{{cite web|last1=Mill|first1=Eric|title=Quora Keeps the World's Knowledge For Itself|url=https://konklone.com/post/quora-keeps-the-worlds-knowledge-for-itself|website=konklone.com|accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="Baio2018">{{cite web|last1=Baio|first1=Andy|authorlink=Andy Baio|date=4 December 2018|title=Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora|url=https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/|website=Waxy.org|accessdate=15 January 2020|ref=harv}}</ref>
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| 2015 || || "In 2015, Quora replaced the credit system with a new mechanic with “more” or “less” high authority for questions and answers in the news feed and expert appeals. This is a simpler system to understand, which automatically ranks all posts depending on several factors: the level of expertise of the author in the desired niche, user activity, the number of direct calls to the presenter or responder, and the like."<ref name="merehead.comt">{{cite web |title=HOW TO BUILD A QUESTION AND ANSWER WEBSITE LIKE QUORA |url=https://merehead.com/blog/how-to-make-website-like-quora/ |website=merehead.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2016 || || "The first ad that Quora had posted was from Uber in 2016"<ref name="vyrazu.com"/> "2016 Quora became a multilingual platform"<ref>{{cite web |title=Asking and answering questions on Quora |url=https://inclass.kaggle.com/alketcecaj/my-quora-answers-data-analysis |website=inclass.kaggle.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> "Monetization on the site appeared only in 2016, when they introduced the opportunity to advertise goods and services of third-party resources. Since then, advertising has been the only way to monetize a project, except for the sale of personal data (which is not discussed openly, but everyone does it, especially if you have specific surnames with user names)."<ref name="merehead.comt"/>
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| 2017 || || Quora reaches 200 million unique visitors every month.<ref name="e"/> "Quora was valued at $1.8 billion following a funding round that raised $85 million"<ref>{{cite web |title=“Malicious” Quora Data Attack Compromises 100 Million Users |url=https://fortune.com/2018/12/04/quora-users-data-attack/ |website=fortune.com |accessdate=13 January 2020}}</ref> Quora World Meetup starts.<ref name="meetup">{{cite news |title= Announcing the first Quora World Meetup |last= Bea, Hannah Long |date= September 18, 2017 |publisher= THE QUORA BLOG |url= https://blog.quora.com/Announcing-the-first-Quora-World-Meetup }}</ref>
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| 2018 || || Quora reaches 300 million unique visitors every month.<ref name="e"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Reach 300+ million monthly unique visitors on Quora |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quoraforbusiness/Reach-300-million-monthly-unique-visitors-on-Quora |website=quora.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref> The company introduces a program that offers incentives to users that ask questions.
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| 2019 || || "But Silicon Valley now considers Quora — something of a relic of a quainter era on the internet — a $2 billion company, Recode has learned."<ref>{{cite web |title=Yes, Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2 billion |url=https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/16/18627157/quora-value-billion-question-answer |website=vox.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2010 || January 4 || || Quora first launches in private beta.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Has The Magic: Benchmark Invests at $86 Million Valuation |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/28/quora-has-the-magic-benchmark-invests-at-86-million-valuation/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2010 || March || Funding || Quora raises $11 million in a series A, with [[wikipedia:Benchmark Capital|Benchmark Capital]] as an investor<ref name="MyUser_Https:_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quora |title=Quora |newspaper=Https: |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref> The company reaches a value of US$86 million.<ref name="Kincaid2010">{{cite web|last=Kincaid|first=Jason|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/quoras-highly-praised-qa-service-launches-to-the-public-and-the-real-test-begins/|title=Quora's Highly Praised Q&A Service Launches To The Public (And The Real Test Begins)|publisher=Techcrunch.com |date=June 21, 2010 |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2010 || June 21 || Product || Quora is first launched for user access.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/><ref name="MyUser_Cnet.com_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.cnet.com/news/q-a-search-site-quora-opens-to-everyone/ |title=Q&A search site Quora opens to the public|work=CNET|accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2010 || September || || "Quora adds ability to insert images, no longer just a Q&A site."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora adds ability to insert images, no longer just a Q&A site. |url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/10/01/huge-update-quora-adds-ability-to-insert-images-into-feeds/ |website=thenextweb.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2010 || December || || As a result of the quick increase of its userbase, Quora sees spikes of visitors five to ten times its usual load—so much that the website has difficulties handling the increased traffic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/05/quora-surge/|title=Quora Signups Explode|editor-last=Lewenstein|date=November 28, 2010|accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2011 || January || Team || [[wikipedia:Marc Bodnick|Marc Bodnick]] leaves [[wikipedia:Elevation Partners|Elevation Partners]] to join Quora<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-bodnick-quora-2011-1 |title=Meet Quora's New Grown-Up: Elevation Partners' Marc Bodnick|work=Business Insider|accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2011 || February || Technology || Quora chooses C++ over C for its high performance services<ref name="services1">{{cite web |url=https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Quora-choose-C-over-C-for-its-high-performance-services |title=Why did Quora choose C++ over C for its high performance services? - Quora |newspaper=Quora.com |accessdate= February 12, 2011}}</ref>
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| 2011 || June || || Quora redesigns the navigation and usability of its website.<ref name="Tsotsis2011">{{cite web|last=Tsotsis|first=Alexia|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/inspired-by-wikipedia-quora-aims-for-relevancy-with-topic-groups-and-reorganized-topic-pages/|title=Inspired by Wikipedia, Quora aims for relevancy with topic groups and reorganized topic pages|publisher=techcrunch.com|date=June 24, 2011|accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2011 || July || Product ||Quora introduces video to its Q&A pages<ref name="TC_Video">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/11/quora-adds-video-to-its-qa-pages/ |title=Quora Adds Video To Its Q&A Pages |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2011 || July || Product ||Quora introduces Credits for asking-to-answer questions<ref name="TCJuly2011">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/quora-testing-user-credits-for-ask-to-answer-questions/ |title=Quora Testing User Credits For "Ask To Answer" Questions |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2011 || August 19 || || In an answer to the question "How did Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever come up with the name Quora?" written on Quora, {{w|Charlie Cheever}} states, "We spent a few hours brainstorming and writing down all the ideas that we could think of. After consulting with friends and eliminating ones we didn't love, we narrowed it down to 5 or 6 finalists, and eventually settled on Quora."<ref name="Cheever2011">{{cite web |last1=Cheever |first1=Charlie |title=Charlie Cheever's answer to How did Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever come up with the name Quora? |url=https://www.quora.com/How-did-Adam-DAngelo-and-Charlie-Cheever-come-up-with-the-name-Quora/answer/Charlie-Cheever |website=Quora |publisher=Quora, Inc. |accessdate=15 Januaru 2020|ref=harv}}</ref>
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| 2011 || September || Product || Quora introduces threaded comments and comment voting.<ref name="TCSeptember2011">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/quora-gets-threaded-comments-comment-voting-editing-and-images/ |title=Quora Gets Threaded Comments, Comment Voting, Editing And Images |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Tsotsis |first1=Alexia |title=Quora Gets Threaded Comments, Comment Voting, Editing And Images |url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/quora-gets-threaded-comments-comment-voting-editing-and-images/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2012 || September || Team || Co-founder [[wikipedia:Charlie Cheever|Charlie Cheever]] moves away from day-to-day operations at Quora and is announced as an advisor to the company.<ref name="MyUser_Forbes_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/09/12/co-founder-charlie-cheever-leaves-and-quora-is-curve-jumping/ |title=Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Leaves And Quora Is Curve Jumping |newspaper=Forbes |date= September 12, 2012 |last=Yung-Hui|first=Lim|accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cofounder Charlie Cheever moves away from day-to-day operations at Quora |url=https://venturebeat.com/2012/09/12/quora-charlie-cheever-smaller-role/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The One Question That No One Will Answer On Quora |url=https://slate.com/technology/2012/09/charlie-cheever-did-quora-fire-co-founder-ceo-don-t-bother-asking-on-quora.html |website=slate.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2012 || November || Product || Quora introduces Top Writers programas a way to recognize individuals having made especially valuable content contributions to the site and encourage them to continue.<ref name="MyUser_Fastcompany.com_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3002541/quora-introduces-new-top-writers-program-hat-tip-its-most-valuable-contributors |title=Quora Introduces A New Top Writers Program As A Hat Tip To Its Most Valuable Contributors |newspaper=Fastcompany.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2013 || January || Product || Quora introduces blogsa blogging platform allowing users to post non-answer content.<ref name="blogging">{{cite web|url=httphttps://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/quora-launches-blogging-platform-with-mobile-text-editor-to-give-every-author-a-built-in-audience/|title= Quora Launches Blogging Platform With Mobile Text Editor To Give Every Author A Built-In Audience|publisher= ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''|date= January 23, 2013|accessdate= February 1, 201315 January 2020|last= Constine|first= Josh}}</ref>
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| 2013 || March || Product || Quora introduces a policy eliminating image-only answers.<ref name="MyUser_Https:_October_10_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-favorite-Quora-policy-or-new-feature-What-Quora-feature-s-should-be-improved-or-eliminated |title=What is your favorite Quora policy or new feature? What Quora feature(s) should be improved or eliminated? - Quora |newspaper=Https: |date= |author= |accessdate= October 10, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2013 || March 20 || || Quora launches a full-text search of questions and answers on its website.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/21/quora-finally-introduces-full-text-search-to-boost-content-discov |title= Quora finally introduces full-text search to boost content discovery |last= Russell |first= Jon |date=March 21, 2013 |accessdate=15 January 2019 |publisher= The Next Web}}</ref>
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| 2013 || May || || Quora extends the feature to mobile devices.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/quora-mobile-search |title= Quora Brings Full-Text Search to Mobile to Unlock FAQ&As for Any Keyword |last= Constine |first= Josh |date=May 29, 2013 |accessdate=15 January 2020|publisher= {{w|TechCrunch}}}}</ref>
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| 2013 || May || || Quora announces that usage metrics tripled relative to the same time in the prior year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/28/quora-grows-more-than-3x-across-all-metrics-in-the-past-year/ |title= Quora Grew More than 3X across All Metrics in the Past Year|last=Tsotsis|first=Alexia|date=May 28, 2013 |accessdate= 15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2013 || November || || Quora introduces a feature called ''Stats'' to allow all users to see summary and detailed statistics of how many people had viewed, upvoted, and shared their questions and answers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://allthingsd.com/20131112/quora-gives-its-writers-a-stats-dashboard/|title= Quora Gives Its Writers a Stats Dashboard|last= Gannes|first= Liz|date= November 12, 2013|accessdate= 15 January 2020|publisher= {{w|AllThingsD}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3021511/fast-feed/quora-stats-tells-you-if-people-find-your-posts-useful|title='Quora Stats' Tells You If People Find Your Posts Useful|last= Truong|first= Alice|date= November 12, 2013|accessdate= 15 January 2020|publisher= [[w:Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]}}</ref>
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| 2014 || April || Funding || Quora raises $80 million in a series C at $900 million valuation, with [[wikipedia:Tiger Global Management|Tiger Global Management]] and [[wikipedia:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] as investors<ref name="MyUser_Https:_July_1_2015c" /><ref name="TC2">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/quora-forever/ |title=Quora Wants To Stay Independent, Raises $80M Series C From Tiger Global At ~$900M Valuation |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>
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| 2014 || June || || Quora becomes one of the Summer 2014 [[w:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] companies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/quora-y-combinator/|title= Q: Why Did Quora Join Y Combinator? A: It Was Almost Free|last= Constine|first= Josh|date= May 11, 2014|accessdate= 15 January 2020|publisher={{w|TechCrunch}}}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November || || "Quora launches Writing Sessions as challenge to Reddit's Ask Me Anything"<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches Writing Sessions as challenge to Reddit's Ask Me Anything |url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/20/9771850/quora-writing-sessions-reddit-ama |website=theverge.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2017 || February 10 || Product || Quora announces major changes to how anonymity works on the site. Anonymous answers would now be delinked from the user's main account, and anonymous users would now be able to only post questions and answers and not take other actions like upvote, comment, merge questions, suggest edits, etc. Previously anonymous answers would stay up, but get delinked (users would receive an email with the anonymous edit links for their anonymous answers). Anonymous content would also be reviewed now before being circulated widely.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://productupdates.quora.com/Upcoming-Changes-to-Anonymity-on-Quora|title = Upcoming Changes to Anonymity on Quora|last = Patterson|first = Riley|date = February 10, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Quora}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/10/qa-site-quora-clamps-down-on-anonymity-will-review-content-before-publishing-restricts-actions/|title = Q&A site Quora clamps down on anonymity – will review content before publishing, restrict actions|last = Perez|first = Sarah|date = February 10, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = ''TechCrunch''}}</ref>
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| 2017 || February 23 || || Quora announces it is officially using and contributing to {{w|Wikidata}}, a knowledge base run by the {{w|Wikimedia Foundation}} that is collaboratively edited like {{w|Wikipedia}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing Wikidata References on Topics |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Announcing-Wikidata-References-on-Topics |website=quora.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || March || || Quora launches in [[w:French language|French]], its third language.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches in French, its third language |url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/08/quora-launches-in-french-its-third-language/ |website=venturebeat.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches in French, its third language |url=https://www.startuphero.com/quora-launches-in-french-its-third-language/ |website=startuphero.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || April 21 || Funding || Quora raises $85 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, double of its Series C valuation of $900 million (where it raised $80 million). The increased valuation is attributed to hitting userbase growth goals (almost doubling from 100 million to 190 million). Investors include Sam Altman and YC Continuity, Collaborative Fund, Tiger Global, and Dustin Moskovitz.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/|title = Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise|last = Constine|first = Josh|date = April 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://crunchbase.com/funding_round/quora-series-d--fdd54820|title = Series D - Quora|date = April 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = CrunchBase}}</ref> The funding would help the company expand internationally and develop its ad business.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/21/quora-raises-85-million-to-expand-internationally-and-develop-its-ads-business/|title = Quora raises $85 million to expand internationally and develop its ads business|last = Magistretti|first = Bérénice|date = April 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 201715 January 2020|publisher = VentureBeat}}</ref>
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| 2017 || April || || Quora claims to have 190 million monthly unique visitors, up from 100 million a year earlier.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/|title=Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise|last=Constine|first=Josh|date=|website={{w|TechCrunch}}|access-date=15 January 2020}}</ref>|-| 2017 || May 11 || || Quora launches beta versions in [[w:German language|German]] and [[w:Italian language|Italian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.quora.com/Launching-betas-for-Quora-in-Italiano-Quora-auf-Deutsch|title=Launching betas for Quora in Italiano & Quora a... - The Quora Blog - Quora|website=blog.quora.com|date=May 11, 2017|first=Shreyes|last=Seshasai|accessdate = 15 January 2020}}</ref>|-| 2017 || May 22 || Product || Quora tests starts running with a limited number of people a beta test of video answers. Authors in this group would be able to record videos on mobile devices for their answers using the Quora iOS and Android apps.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/quora-video/|title = Quora tests video answers to steal Q&A from YouTube|date = May 22, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = TechCrunch|last = Constine|first = Josh}}</ref><ref name="Expanding the Video Beta"/>
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| 2017 || May 23 || Advertising || Quora launches a self-serve ad platform. Previously, advertising on Quora was open only to a small number of select partners.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/23/quora-just-launched-a-self-serve-ad-platform/|title = Quora just launched a self-serve ad platform|last = Tepper|first = Fitz|date = May 23, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = TechCrunch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.clixmarketing.com/blog/2017/06/29/5-things-you-should-know-about-quora-ads/|title = 5 Things You Should Know About Quora Ads|date = June 29, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Clix Marketing}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://zatomarketing.com/blog/quora-ads/|title = Pros and Cons of Quora Ads – A 90 Day Look|date = June 15, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|last = Halloran|first = Tim}}</ref> Initial advertiser feedback praises the interface and the cost-effectiveness but asks for larger reach and more granular targeting options.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://marketingland.com/what-performance-advertisers-saying-quora-ad-platform-220261|title = Here’s what performance advertisers are saying about Quora’s new ad platform. Whether they've been on the platform for one month or seven, advertiser feedback is strikingly similar: We like the performance -- when can we scale?|last = Marvin|first = Ginny|date = July 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Marketing Land}}</ref>
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| 2017 || August 17 || Advertising || Quora announces support for website retargeting on its ad platform. To avail of this, advertisers would need to install the Quora Conversion Pixel on their site (for Quora to know if a user visited their site).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://business.quora.com/Announcing-Retargeting-on-the-Quora-Ads-Platform|title = Announcing Retargeting on the Quora Ads Platform|last = Browne|first = Ryan|date = August 17, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Quora}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://marketingland.com/quora-launches-retargeting-advertisers-222131|title = Quora launches retargeting for advertisers. Advertisers can build audience lists and create ads targeted to segments of past site visitors.|last = Marvin|first = Ginny|date = August 17, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = MarketingLand}}</ref>
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| 2017 || August || || Quora is highly criticized for removing question details. According to some users, the removal of question details limits the ability to submit personal questions and questions requiring code excerpts, multimedia, or complexity of any sort that could not fit into the length limit for a {{w|URL}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Why did Quora get rid of question details? Isn't it rather crucial to understand over half of the existing content on the site? Why not just prevent people from adding details to new questions while retaining the details attached to the old ones? - Quora |url=https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Quora-get-rid-of-question-details-Isn%E2%80%99t-it-rather-crucial-to-understand-over-half-of-the-existing-content-on-the-site-Why-not-just-prevent-people-from-adding-details-to-new-questions-while-retaining-the-details-attached-to-the-old-ones |website=www.quora.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Do you want Quora to bring question details back? - Quora |url=https://www.quora.com/Do-you-want-Quora-to-bring-question-details-back |website=www.quora.com |language=en}}</ref>
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| 2017 || September 25 || || Japanese Quora launches.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Quora Blog |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Launching-Quora-in-Japanese |website=quora.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || September 29 || || Quora rolls out Video on Quora in beta to all users. From any question, users would be able to tap the record button from the iOS and Android apps to record a new video answer.<ref name="Expanding the Video Beta">{{cite web |title=Expanding the Video Beta |url=https://www.quora.com/q/updates/Expanding-the-Video-Beta |website=quora.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>|-| 2017 || October || Competition || "Brainly raises $14 million for its Quora-for-kids education tech" "Brainly already has 10% of the market of kids in that age group, using the company's Quora-like service to help each other learn"<ref>{{cite web |title=Brainly raises $14 million for its Quora-for-kids education tech |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/25/brainly-raises-14-million-for-its-quora-for-kids-education-tech/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || || "Quora’s ad pixel now supports multi-event conversion tracking"<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora’s ad pixel now supports multi-event conversion tracking |url=https://marketingland.com/quoras-ad-pixel-now-supports-multi-event-conversion-tracking-235682 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || April 24 || || Quora announces the Quora Partner Program, with the purpose to "compensate participants for adding good questions that many people in the world may have".<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Partner Program Beta |url=https://www.quora.com/q/updates/Quora-Partner-Program-Beta |website=quora.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || April || || Quora announces beta versions in [[w:Hindi language|Hindi]], [[w:Portuguese language|Portuguese]], and [[w:Indonesian language|Indonesian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.quora.com/Announcing-Betas-for-Quora-in-Hindi-Indonesian-and-Portuguese|title=Announcing Betas for Quora in Hindi, Indonesian... - The Quora Blog - Quora|website=blog.quora.com|accessdate=15 January 2020|date=April 19, 2018|first=Shreyes|last=Seshasai}}</ref>
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| 2018 || May || || "Quora launches Video Answers" "Back in May, they started playing with native videos in a closed beta release. Only users in the certain groups like beauty, cooking, fitness, and parenting had access to it."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Launches Video Answers - the end of Youtube? |url=https://www.animaker.com/blog/quora-video/ |website=animaker.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2018 || May 22 || || "Quora, the Q&A platform, is expanding its advertising offerings with the launch of image ads. Announced Tuesday, the new format is available on mobile and desktop."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches native image ads globally |url=https://marketingland.com/quora-launches-native-image-ads-globally-240664 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Introducing Image Ads on the Quora Advertising Platform |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quoraforbusiness/Introducing-Image-Ads-on-the-Quora-Advertising-Platform |website=quora.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || May || || "Quora launches in Hindi"<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches in Hindi; other Indian languages planned |url=https://www.medianama.com/2018/05/223-quora-launches-hindi/ |website=medianama.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || June || || "Quora's founding CEO Adam D'Angelo on Tuesday announced a lineup of Japanese leaders in various fields, including an astronaut, an archaeologist and an expert in artificial intelligence, who are willing to become involved in the online question-and-answer forum run by his company. He made the announcement at the Global Digital Summit in Tokyo, a technology event hosted by Nikkei."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora pushes into Asia with social media information service |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Quora-pushes-into-Asia-with-social-media-information-service |website=asia.nikkei.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || June 5 || || Quora announces launches service launch in [[w:Hindi language|Hindi]], Indonesian[[w:Portuguese language|Portuguese]], and Portuguese[[w:Indonesian language|Indonesian]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Launching Quora in Hindi, Indonesian, and Portuguese |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Launching-Quora-in-Hindi-Indonesian-and-Portuguese |website=quora.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=QUORA LAUNCHES BAHASA INDONESIA VERSION OF PLATFORM, MARKS SEA DEBUT |url=https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/business/quora-launches-bahasa-indonesia-version-platform-marks-sea-debut |website=digitalnewsasia.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || June August || || "Quora launched a new version of its platform in Bahasa Indonesia"introduces the ability for users to share [[w:Links (web browser)|links]].<ref>{{cite web |title=QUORA LAUNCHES BAHASA INDONESIA VERSION OF PLATFORM, MARKS SEA DEBUT A New Way to Share on Quora |url=https://www.digitalnewsasiaquora.com/businessq/updates/quoraA-launchesNew-bahasaWay-indonesiato-versionShare-platformon-marks-sea-debut Quora |website=digitalnewsasiaquora.com |accessdate=12 14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || August September || || "Quora launches the ability for introduces Broad Targeting, a targeting option that relies on {{w|machine learning}} to optimize ad delivery to reach users most likely to share links"take the desired action.<refname="e">{{cite web |title=A New Way to Share on Quora introduces Broad Targeting, says audience hits 300 million monthly users |url=https://www.quoramarketingland.com/q/updates/Aquora-introduces-broad-targeting-says-audience-Newhits-Way300-tomillion-Sharemonthly-onusers-Quora 248261 |website=quoramarketingland.com |accessdate=14 12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || September || Userbase || "As of date, Quora introduces Broad Targeting. Broad Targeting relies on machine learning to optimize ad delivery to reach has 300 million unique users most likely to take the desired action."<ref name="e">{{cite web |title=Quora introduces Broad Targeting, says audience hits 300 million monthly users |url=https://marketinglandvyrazu.com"/quora-introduces-broad-targeting-says-audience-hits-300-million-monthly-users-248261 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || September December 3 || Security || "By September Quora says 100 million users hacked"<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora says 100 million users hacked |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46438239 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora says 100 million users hit by 'malicious' data breach |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018 /12/03/tech/quora-hack-data-breach/index.html |website=edition.cnn.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora had 300 says hackers stole up to 100 million users’ data |url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18124849/quora-100-million-user-hack-name-email-messages |website=theverge.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora says 100 million unique users which still did not match the number of may have been affected by data breach |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/quora-says-100-million-users visiting other common websites such as Facebook or Twitter which -may-have-been-affected-by-data-breach/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref> "In December 2018 there was roughly 326 a security breach that damaged 100 million usersof Quora."<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
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| 2018 || December 3 November || Security || Quora ends support of user blogs and introduces a new feature called "Quora says 100 million users hackedSpaces".<ref>{{cite Cite web |title=Quora says 100 million users hacked |url=https://wwwblog.bbcquora.com/news/technologyIntroducing-46438239 |website=bbc.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web Spaces|title=Introducing Spaces - The Quora says 100 million users hit by 'malicious' data breach |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/03/tech/quoraBlog -hack-data-breach/index.html Quora|website=edition.cnn.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora says hackers stole up to 100 million users’ data |url=https://wwwblog.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18124849/quora-100-million-user-hack-name-email-messages |website=theverge.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora says 100 million users may have been affected by data breach |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/quoraaccess-says-100-million-users-may-have-been-affected-by-data-breach/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdatedate=12 15 January 2020}}</ref> "In December 2018 there was a security breach that damaged 100 million users of Quora."<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
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| 2019 || January || || "Quora adds search-like keyword targeting, Auction Insights for advertisers. Keyword targeting offers the intent targeting of search and can be more granular than topic targeting. Auction Insights offer competitive visibility."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora adds search-like keyword targeting, Auction Insights for advertisers |url=https://marketingland.com/quora-adds-search-like-keyword-targeting-auction-insights-for-advertisers-256261 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Ads now with Keyword Targeting available |url=https://ppc.land/quora-ads-now-with-keyword-targeting-available/ |website=ppc.land |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || January 16 || Userbase || "Quora announces support for the Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali, and Tamil languages"reports userbase composed of a 43/57 female to male ratio.<refname="foundationinc.co">{{cite web |title=Launching 15 Quora in 8 New Languages Statistics Marketers Need to Know For 2020 |url=https://www.quorafoundationinc.comco/qlab/quora-statistics/Launching-Quora-in-8-New-Languages |website=quorafoundationinc.com co |accessdate=14 15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || January 16 || || "Quora launches announces support for [[w:Finnish language|Finnish]], [[w:Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[w:Swedish language|Swedish]], [[w:Danish language|Danish]], [[w:Dutch language|Dutch]], [[w:Bengali language|Bengali service"]], [[w:Marathi language|Marathi]], and [[w:Tamil language|Tamil]] languages.<ref>{{cite web |title=Launching Quora in 8 New Languages |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Launching-Quora-in-8-New-Languages |website=quora.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches Bengali service |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/online/quora-bangla-service-launched-successfully-1691200 |website=thedailystar.net |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || January 31 || || "Quora -- known as a platform for users to share ideas and ask questions to get answers -- has launched launches Action Insights, a tool to help marketers understand the competitiveness of a brand’s ads in the Quora platform. The tool is composed of three new metrics, introduced Thursday include including Auctions Lost to Competition, which shows the percentage of auctions that the marketer's ad set entered but did not win an ad impression in one of the ad slots available. SecondA second feature, Impression Share , is the percentage of auctions the ad set entered and won an ad impression. And A thirdfeature, Absolute Impression Share , is the percentage of auctions that the ad set entered and won."<ref>{{cite web |title=First Reddit, Now Quora For Search Marketers |url=https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/331412/first-reddit-now-quora-for-search-marketers.html |website=mediapost.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || February 27 || || Quora introduces the ability to bulk edit and bulk create ads within the Quora Ads Manager.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing Bulk Ad Creation and Editing |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quoraforbusiness/Announcing-Bulk-Ad-Creation-and-Editing |website=quora.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora intros bulk ad creation, editing |url=https://marketingland.com/quora-intros-bulk-ad-creation-editing-257837 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || April || || "Quora has announced announces the integration of the Quora Pixel with Google Tag Manager, streamlining the process of adding the Pixel to a website."<ref>{{cite web |title=OTHER PLATFORMS The Quora Pixel Is Now Integrated With Google Tag Manager |url=https://wersm.com/the-quora-pixel-is-now-integrated-with-google-tag-manager/ |website=wersm.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || May || || "Quora Launches New Business Podcast, Google Tag Manager Integration" "Quora has announced a new integration with Google Tag Manager to help streamline its data tracking tools, while its also launching a new podcast which will focus on how businesses are using Quora's ad tools to reach engaged audiences."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Launches New Business Podcast, Google Tag Manager Integration |url=https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/quora-launches-new-business-podcast-google-tag-manager-integration/553903/ |website=socialmediatoday.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
| 2019 || May || || "in May 2019, it was valued to be $2 billion in a round of investors which counted to be $ 60 million sponsored mainly by Tesla and SpaceX. "<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
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| 2019 || August || Competition || "Chinese Q&A website Zhihu has reportedly completed a USD 434 million (or more than RMB 3 billion) series F funding round, the largest sum it has raised to-date, as reported by 36Kr."<ref>{{cite web |title=Tencent-backed “Chinese Quora” Zhihu receives USD 434 million strategic investment from Baidu and Kuaishou |url=https://kr-asia.com/chinese-quora-zhihu-raises-usd-450-million-in-series-f-funding-round |website=kr-asia.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>|-| 2019 || August || || Quora this month integrated integrates LiveRamp IdentityLink in Quora Ads Manager, enabling the advertisers to onboard people-based audiences."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora integrates LiveRamp IdentityLink in Quora Ads Manager |url=https://ppc.land/quora-integrates-liveramp-identitylink-in-quora-ads-manager/ |website=ppc.land |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>|-| 2019 || September || || According to {{w|Alexa Internet}}, {{w|India}} makes up the largest user base at 38%, followed by the {{w|United States}} at 26%, with an overall global site ranking of 233.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quora.com|title=Quora.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa|last=|first=|date=|website=www.alexa.com|accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || October || || "Quora adds 3 new targeting options for advertisers" "Keyword history targeting. This is a blend of the existing keyword targeting and question retargeting options on Quora. You can reach people who have shown an interest in subjects related to your business based on the keywords you’re using. Your ads will target who have visited groups of question pages in a given time period, such as the past 20 days, for example. Ads display on users’ feeds, topic feeds, and question pages." "Gender targeting. If your company produces products designed specifically for men or women, this option can help you direct spend to your target customers. Quora also notes that some businesses may see improved results from messaging tailored to male and female audiences. Quora said that during the beta, some advertisers saw conversion rate lifts of up to 40% over campaigns without gender targeting. You’ll find this option located at the ad set-level under Demographic Targeting." "Browser targeting. Quora already offers the ability to target by device and mobile platforms, but now you can now target ad sets to specific desktop browsers, including Chrome, Safari and Firefox. This capability is ideal for software that is designed to be browser-specific, for example."<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora adds 3 new targeting options for advertisers |url=https://marketingland.com/quora-adds-3-new-targeting-options-for-advertisers-268817 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || November || || Quora hires former Yahoo India Managing Director Gurmit Singh to lead business growth in India, one of its fastest growing markets with over 70 million monthly unique visitors in English. The company also announces the establishment of its first India office.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora To Set Up First Office In India; Adds Gujarati, Telugu Support |url=https://inc42.com/buzz/quora-to-set-up-first-office-in-india-adds-gujarati-telugu-support/ |website=inc42.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora appoints new India head to expand presence in country |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/quora-appoints-new-india-head-to-expand-presence-in-country/articleshow/72068589.cms |website=inc42.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Former Yahoo India MD Gurmit Singh joins Quora as India GM |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/former-yahoo-india-md-gurmit-singh-joins-quora-as-india-gm/article29982738.ece |website=thehindubusinessline.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || December 9 || || Quora announces launch in {{w|Arabic}}, [[w:Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[w:Hebrew language|Hebrew]], {{w|Kannada}}, {{w|Malayalam}}, and [[w:Telugu language|Telugu]] languages.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora now live in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/quora-now-live-in-malayalam-telugu-kannada-and-gujarati/articleshow/72852103.cms |website=economictimes.indiatimes.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || December || || Quora announces that it would open its first international engineering office in {{w|Vancouver}}, which would deal with mechanical learning and other engineering functions.<ref name="Vancouver Office">{{cite web |last1=D'Angelo |first1=Adam |title=Opening a Vancouver Quora Office |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Opening-a-Vancouver-Quora-Office |publisher=Quora |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || December || || "Quora launches Lead Gen Forms Ads"<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches Lead Gen Forms Ads |url=https://ppc.land/quora-launches-lead-gen-forms-ads/ |website=ppc.land |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || December 17 || || In a bid to attract the rising number of internet users in {{w|India}}, Quora adds Malayalam, Telugu, Gujarati and Kannada for its users in the country. With the addition, the service reaches a total of 24 languages.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rawat |first1=Aman |title=Indian Quora Users Can Now Discuss In Four New Vernacular Languages |url=https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-quora-users-can-now-discuss-in-four-new-vernacular-languages/ |website=inc42.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2020 || January 1 || || A retired {{w|Palestinian American}} professor files a lawsuit against Quora at the {{w|United States District Court for the Northern District of California}}, alleging that she has been wrongfully banned from the website and accused of posting hate speech for her pro-Palestinian views and [[w:anti-Zionism|anti-Zionist]] views.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blumberg |first1=Peter |title=Pro-Palestine Professor Sues Quora for Censorship After Banning |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-01/pro-palestine-professor-sues-quora-for-censorship-after-banning |accessdate=January 5, 2020 |work=[[w:Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] |date=January 12, 2020}}</ref>
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