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* How did the service evolve over time? What are important features and additions?
 
* How did the service evolve over time? What are important features and additions?
 
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** You will see a variety of updates, tools and features introduced.
 
* What are the several versions among different languages Quora has been launched?
 
* What are the several versions among different languages Quora has been launched?
 
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** You will se the introduction of versions in several other languages, starting with Spanish Quora.
 
* What are some notable contributions on Quora?
 
* What are some notable contributions on Quora?
 
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** You will see names like {{w|Barack Obama}} and {{w|Hillary Clinton}}.
 
* How did Quora's userbase grow throughout time?
 
* How did Quora's userbase grow throughout time?
 
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* What are the several parterships and what are their purpose?
 
* What are the several parterships and what are their purpose?
 
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** You will see names like {{w|Barack Obama}} and {{w|Hillary Clinton}}.
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** You will see collaborations with [[W:BBC Online|BBC.com]], {{w|Simon & Schuster}}, and [[w:Time (magazine)|TIME]], etc.
 
* What are some notable Quora competitors?
 
* What are some notable Quora competitors?
 
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| 2009 || Quora is founded.
 
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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}}</ref>   
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| 2010–2011 || Quora grows spectacularly in usership, giving the website more than 150,000 users.<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}}</ref>   
 
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| 2012 || Financial || Quora surpasses US$400 million in value.<ref name="fusion360agency.com"/>
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| 2012 || Quora surpasses US$400 million in value.<ref name="fusion360agency.com"/>
 
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| 2013 || || Quora reports 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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| 2013 || Quora launches 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> A full-text search of questions and answers is released.<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> The site reports 50 percent growth in the year.<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>
 
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| 2014 || || Quora 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> After drawing an $80 million funding from Tiger Global, 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="Mill2014">{{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|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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| 2014 || Quora 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> After drawing an $80 million funding from Tiger Global, the company is valued at $900 million.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>  
 
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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>
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| 2015 || Quora replaces the credit system with a simpler system that automatically ranks all posts depending on several factors, including user activity and level of expertise of the author.<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>
 
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| 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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| 2016 || Quora becomes 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> The site also introduces the opportunity to advertise goods and services of third-party resources. Since then, advertising becomes the only way to monetize a project.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/><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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| 2017 || Quora reaches 200 million unique visitors every month.<ref name="e"/> The site is 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. Entertainment, travel, business, marketing, learning, and technology are the most popular topics on the site.<ref name="foundationinc.co"/>
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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. Entertainment, travel, business, marketing, learning, and technology are the most popular topics on the site.<ref name="foundationinc.co"/>
 
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| 2019 || || Quora reaches value of US$2 billion in the {{w|Silicon Valley}}.<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>
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| 2019 || Quora reaches value of US$2 billion in the {{w|Silicon Valley}}.<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>
 
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=== Wikipedia pageviews ===
 
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The image below shows pageviews of the {{w|English Wikipedia}} page {{w|Quora}} from its launch to December 2019 on desktop, and from July 2015 (see vertical red line) to December 2019 on mobile web and mobile app.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Wikipedia Views |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=Quora&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=human |website=wikipediaviews.org |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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[[File:Quora Wikipedia Views.png|thumb|center|500px]]
 
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The image below shows cross-language Wikipedia views comparison of the page {{w|Quora}} in [[w:Chinese Wikipedia|Chinese]] (zh), [[w:German Wikipedia|German]] (de), [[w:Spanish Wikipedia|Spanish]] (es), [[w:Russian Wikipedia|Russian]] (ru), [[w:French Wikipedia|French]] (fr), [[w:Italian Wikipedia|Italian]] (it), [[w:Japanese Wikipedia|Japanese]] (ja), and [[w:Portuguese Wikipedia|Portuguese]] Wikipedias.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cross-language Quora Wikipedia views |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=Quora&allmonths=allmonths-api&languages[0]=de&languages[1]=ru&languages[2]=es&languages[3]=ja&languages[4]=fr&languages[5]=it&languages[6]=zh&languages[7]=pt&drilldown=human&fbclid=IwAR3eMQiCbzcL6RTTOTBsVhBMIh2DcNLPKoTDg0SNfxdP2bxaJz7A7t_b4rk |website=wikipediaviews.org |accessdate=2 February 2020}}</ref>
 
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[[File:Quora in languages.png|thumb|center|500px]]
 
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=== Google Trends ===
 
  
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The image below shows Google Trends data from January 2010 (launch of Quora) to January 2020, when the screenshot was taken.
 
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[[File:Quora Google Trends.png|700px|thumb|center|Google Trends data from January 2010 (launch of Quora) to January 2020, when the screenshot was taken.<ref>{{cite web |title=quora |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2010-01-04%202020-01-15&q=quora |website=trends.google.com |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>
 
| 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 introduces ability to insert images into feeds.<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 || September || Product || Quora introduces ability to insert images into feeds.<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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| 2010 || December || Userbase || 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>
 
| 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>
 
| 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 || June || Product || 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>
 
| 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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| 2012 || June 14 || Product || With the purpose to help users get the best content from Quora with finding out the latest activity they're interested in, Quora launches its Most Recent feed feature, which shows new content and recent activity by followed people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Product Launch: Most Recent Feed |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Product-Launch-Most-Recent-Feed |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>  
 
| 2012 || June 14 || Product || With the purpose to help users get the best content from Quora with finding out the latest activity they're interested in, Quora launches its Most Recent feed feature, which shows new content and recent activity by followed people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Product Launch: Most Recent Feed |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Product-Launch-Most-Recent-Feed |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>  
 
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| 2012 || July 23–27 || {{w|Hackathon}} || Quora hosts Quorachella, a hackathon dedicated to work on projects that the company thinks will have a big impact but aren't on the official product plan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Show your LinkedIn profile on Quora |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Show-your-LinkedIn-profile-on-Quora |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2012 || June 15 || Notable contribution || {{w|Wikipedia}} co-founder {{w|Jimmy Wales}} posts his first answers to questions on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jimmy Wales |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Jimmy-Wales?sort=views |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 March 2020}}</ref>
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| 2012 || July 23–27 || Competition || Quora hosts Quorachella, a {{w|hackathon}} dedicated to work on projects that the company thinks will have a big impact but aren't on the official product plan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Show your LinkedIn profile on Quora |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Show-your-LinkedIn-profile-on-Quora |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || August 1 || Product || Quora introcudes Views, a feature that lets users see which other users are reading which posts. The feature  displays how many views a particular question, answer, or post has received, and users can click on the number to see even more detailed information, including registered users who viewed the post, as well as how they found it, whether through a particular topic or another user.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Launches ‘Views’ To Show You Exactly Who Is Reading Your Posts |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/quoras-views-analytics-launch/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora reveals your reading habits by default with 'Views' |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/quora-reveals-your-reading-habits-by-default-with-views/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Views lets you see who is reading your content |url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/1/3213398/quora-views |website=theverge.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2012 || August 1 || Product || Quora introcudes Views, a feature that lets users see which other users are reading which posts. The feature  displays how many views a particular question, answer, or post has received, and users can click on the number to see even more detailed information, including registered users who viewed the post, as well as how they found it, whether through a particular topic or another user.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Launches ‘Views’ To Show You Exactly Who Is Reading Your Posts |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/quoras-views-analytics-launch/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora reveals your reading habits by default with 'Views' |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/quora-reveals-your-reading-habits-by-default-with-views/ |website=cnet.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora Views lets you see who is reading your content |url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/1/3213398/quora-views |website=theverge.com |accessdate=14 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2014 || December 18 || Product || Quora introduces a new system aimed at making notifications much more manageable and useful. Upvotes and follows that are less relevant to users wouldn't be sent individually, instead being aggregated into grouped notifications and sent once a day. This includes random upvotes on old answers, upvotes and follows from people users don't know, who have almost no followers, etc. Notifications that are more relevant would still be sent individually and immediately. These include things like upvotes and follows from people users may know or be interested in, as well as upvotes on recent answers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Making Notifications More Manageable |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Making-Notifications-More-Manageable |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>  
 
| 2014 || December 18 || Product || Quora introduces a new system aimed at making notifications much more manageable and useful. Upvotes and follows that are less relevant to users wouldn't be sent individually, instead being aggregated into grouped notifications and sent once a day. This includes random upvotes on old answers, upvotes and follows from people users don't know, who have almost no followers, etc. Notifications that are more relevant would still be sent individually and immediately. These include things like upvotes and follows from people users may know or be interested in, as well as upvotes on recent answers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Making Notifications More Manageable |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Making-Notifications-More-Manageable |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>  
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| 2014 || || Controversy || 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="Mill2014">{{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|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 || January 8 || Notable contribution || American show host {{w|Glenn Beck}} publishes his first answer to a question on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glenn Beck |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Glenn-Beck |website=quora.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2015 || January 8 || Notable contribution || American show host {{w|Glenn Beck}} publishes his first answer to a question on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Glenn Beck |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Glenn-Beck |website=quora.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2016 || March 8 || Notable contribution || American politician {{w|Elizabeth Warren}} publishes her first answer to aquestion on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Warren |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Elizabeth-Warren |website=quora.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || March 8 || Notable contribution || American politician {{w|Elizabeth Warren}} publishes her first answer to aquestion on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Warren |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Elizabeth-Warren |website=quora.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || March 30 || Acquisitions || Quora acquires [[wikipedia:Parlio|Parlio]], an online Q&A site started by [[wikipedia:Wael Ghonim|Wael Ghonim]].<ref name="TCParlio">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/quora-parlio/ |title=Quora's first acquisition is Arab Spring instigator's Q&A site Parlio |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= April 27, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2016 || March 30 || Acquisition || Quora acquires [[wikipedia:Parlio|Parlio]], an online Q&A site started by [[wikipedia:Wael Ghonim|Wael Ghonim]].<ref name="TCParlio">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/quora-parlio/ |title=Quora's first acquisition is Arab Spring instigator's Q&A site Parlio |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= April 27, 2016}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || April 11 || Notable contribution || American author {{w|Thomas Friedman}} posts his first answers to questions on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Friedman |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Thomas-Friedman |website=quora.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || April 11 || Notable contribution || American author {{w|Thomas Friedman}} posts his first answers to questions on Quora.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Friedman |url=https://www.quora.com/profile/Thomas-Friedman |website=quora.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2017 || November 6–11 || Meeting event || Quora launches its first World Meetup Week. Each meetup has a designated lead, who serves as the organizer of the event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing the first Quora World Meetup |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Announcing-the-first-Quora-World-Meetup |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref> Nearly 3,000 writers in over 100 cities gathered to celebrate the event.<ref name="Quora World Meetup Week 2018"/>
 
| 2017 || November 6–11 || Meeting event || Quora launches its first World Meetup Week. Each meetup has a designated lead, who serves as the organizer of the event.<ref>{{cite web |title=Announcing the first Quora World Meetup |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Announcing-the-first-Quora-World-Meetup |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref> Nearly 3,000 writers in over 100 cities gathered to celebrate the event.<ref name="Quora World Meetup Week 2018"/>
 
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| 2018 || March || Product || "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 || March || Product || Quora introduces updates to its ads platform. The ad pixel now supports multi-event conversion tracking. View-through conversion tracking and updated metrics reporting are also introduced.<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 || March || || "Quora launches List Match Targeting for reaching audiences based on email lists"<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches List Match Targeting for reaching audiences based on email lists |url=https://marketingland.com/quora-launches-list-match-targeting-reaching-audiences-based-email-lists-236131 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2018 || March || Product || Quora releases List Match Audiences, which allows advertisers to upload customer or prospect email lists to Quora for ad targeting or exclusions. Advertisers can also create lookalike audiences from List Match.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora launches List Match Targeting for reaching audiences based on email lists |url=https://marketingland.com/quora-launches-list-match-targeting-reaching-audiences-based-email-lists-236131 |website=marketingland.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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| 2018 || April 24 || Program launch || 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>
 
| 2018 || April 24 || Program launch || 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 || September || Userbase || As of date, Quora has 300 million unique users.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
 
| 2018 || September || Userbase || As of date, Quora has 300 million unique users.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
 
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| 2018 || December 3 || Security || "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 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 users may have been affected by data breach |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/quora-says-100-million-users-may-have-been-affected-by-data-breach/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 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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| 2018 || December 3 || Security || Quora reports a security breach that gained access to the personal data of as many as 100 million of its users. The breach includes encrypted passwords, and questions people have asked, as well as answers, upvotes and downvotes.<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 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 users may have been affected by data breach |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/03/quora-says-100-million-users-may-have-been-affected-by-data-breach/ |website=techcrunch.com |accessdate=12 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
 
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| 2018 || November 7 || Product || Quora ends support of user blogs and introduces a new feature called "Spaces", which allows people to curate collections and form communities around shared interests and tastes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.quora.com/Introducing-Spaces|title=Introducing Spaces - The Quora Blog - Quora|website=blog.quora.com|access-date=15 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2018 || November 7 || Product || Quora ends support of user blogs and introduces a new feature called "Spaces", which allows people to curate collections and form communities around shared interests and tastes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.quora.com/Introducing-Spaces|title=Introducing Spaces - The Quora Blog - Quora|website=blog.quora.com|access-date=15 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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| 2019 || January || Product || "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 || Product || Quora introduces Keyword Targeting in the Quora Ads platform, enabling advertisers to target questions that contain specific keywords.<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 || Userbase || Quora reports userbase composed of a 43/57 female to male ratio.<ref name="foundationinc.co">{{cite web |title=15 Quora Statistics Marketers Need to Know For 2020 |url=https://foundationinc.co/lab/quora-statistics/ |website=foundationinc.co |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2019 || January || Userbase || Quora reports userbase composed of a 43/57 female to male ratio.<ref name="foundationinc.co">{{cite web |title=15 Quora Statistics Marketers Need to Know For 2020 |url=https://foundationinc.co/lab/quora-statistics/ |website=foundationinc.co |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || April || Product || Quora 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>
 
| 2019 || April || Product || Quora 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 || Product || "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>
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| 2019 || May || Product || Quora announces a new integration with Google Tag Manager to help streamline its data tracking tools, while also launches a new podcast which focuses 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>
 
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| 2019 || May || Financial || Quora is valued at US$2 billion in a round of investors which amassing US$60 million sponsored mainly by [[w:Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]] and {{w|SpaceX}}.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
 
| 2019 || May || Financial || Quora is valued at US$2 billion in a round of investors which amassing US$60 million sponsored mainly by [[w:Tesla, Inc.|Tesla]] and {{w|SpaceX}}.<ref name="vyrazu.com"/>
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| 2019 || December || Facility || Quora announces that it would open its first international engineering office in {{w|Vancouver}}, which would deal with machine 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>
 
| 2019 || December || Facility || Quora announces that it would open its first international engineering office in {{w|Vancouver}}, which would deal with machine 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 || Product || "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 || Product || Quora launches Lead Gen Forms Ads, enabling advertisers to gain leads directly on Quora’s platform.<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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| 2019 || December 17 || Market expansion || 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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| 2019 || December 23 || Userbase || Quora announces over 300 million monthly unique visitors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Progress 2010-2019 |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Progress-2010-2019 |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>   
 
| 2019 || December 23 || Userbase || Quora announces over 300 million monthly unique visitors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Progress 2010-2019 |url=https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Progress-2010-2019 |website=quora.com |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref>   
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| 2020 || January 1 || Legal || 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>
 
| 2020 || January 1 || Legal || 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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| 2020 || January 15 || || According to {{w|Amazon Alexa}} Rank 90 Day Trend, Quora ranks 216th in global internet engagement.<ref>{{cite web |title=quora |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quora.com |website=alexa.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
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| 2020 || January 15 || Ranking || According to {{w|Amazon Alexa}} Rank 90 Day Trend, Quora ranks 216th in global internet engagement.<ref>{{cite web |title=quora |url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quora.com |website=alexa.com |accessdate=15 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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| 2020 || January 23 || Personnel || Quora announces personnel {{w|layoff}}. CEO {{w|Adam D’Angelo}} writes that the cuts include "eliminating certain roles in our Bay Area and New York offices, along with some other organizational changes", with the purpose to "continue to operate independently regardless of the economic environment."<ref>{{cite web |title=Q&A unicorn Quora says it's cutting staff to reduce burn rate |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/01/23/q-a-unicorn-quora-says-its-cutting-staff-to-reduce.html |website=bizjournals.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Layoffs hit Q&A startup Quora |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/layoffs-hit-q-startup-quora-205658315.html |website=finance.yahoo.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora to lay off staff in Bay Area |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Quora-to-lay-off-an-undisclosed-number-of-15001785.php |website=sfchronicle.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
| 2020 || January 23 || Personnel || Quora announces personnel {{w|layoff}}. CEO {{w|Adam D’Angelo}} writes that the cuts include "eliminating certain roles in our Bay Area and New York offices, along with some other organizational changes", with the purpose to "continue to operate independently regardless of the economic environment."<ref>{{cite web |title=Q&A unicorn Quora says it's cutting staff to reduce burn rate |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/01/23/q-a-unicorn-quora-says-its-cutting-staff-to-reduce.html |website=bizjournals.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Layoffs hit Q&A startup Quora |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/layoffs-hit-q-startup-quora-205658315.html |website=finance.yahoo.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Quora to lay off staff in Bay Area |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Quora-to-lay-off-an-undisclosed-number-of-15001785.php |website=sfchronicle.com |accessdate=30 January 2020}}</ref>
 
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== Numerical and visual data  ==
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=== Google Scholar ===
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The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 20, 2021.
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| 2010 || 88
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| 2011 || 384
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| 2012 || 581
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| 2013 || 699
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| 2014 || 891
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| 2015 || 1,340 
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| 2016 || 2,320
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| 2017 || 3,590 
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| 2018 || 4,820
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| 2019 || 5,100
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| 2020 || 4,840 
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[[File:Quora gsch.png|thumb|center|700px]]
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=== Google Trends ===
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The comparative chart below shows {{w|Google Trends}} data for Quora (Website), Reddit (Website) and Yahoo! Answers (Website), from June 2009 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora, Reddit and Yahoo! Answers |url=https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2009-06-01%202021-04-14&q=%2Fm%2F0bm8t1r,%2Fm%2F0b2334,%2Fm%2F098wjp |website=Google Trends |access-date=14 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:Quora comparative gt.png|thumb|center|600px]]
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=== Google Trends ===
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The chart below shows {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} data for Quora, from 2009 to 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora |url=https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Quora&year_start=2009&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true |website=books.google.com |access-date=13 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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[[File:Quora ngram.png|thumb|center|700px]]
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=== Wikipedia pageviews ===
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The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article {{w|Quora}}, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to March 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quora |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=Quora&allmonths=allmonths&language=en&drilldown=all |website=wikipediaviews.org |access-date=23 April 2021}}</ref>
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[[File:Quora wv.png|thumb|center|450px]]
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The image below shows cross-language Wikipedia views comparison of the page {{w|Quora}} in [[w:Chinese Wikipedia|Chinese]] (zh), [[w:German Wikipedia|German]] (de), [[w:Spanish Wikipedia|Spanish]] (es), [[w:Russian Wikipedia|Russian]] (ru), [[w:French Wikipedia|French]] (fr), [[w:Italian Wikipedia|Italian]] (it), [[w:Japanese Wikipedia|Japanese]] (ja), and [[w:Portuguese Wikipedia|Portuguese]] Wikipedias.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cross-language Quora Wikipedia views |url=https://wikipediaviews.org/displayviewsformultiplemonths.php?page=Quora&allmonths=allmonths-api&languages[0]=de&languages[1]=ru&languages[2]=es&languages[3]=ja&languages[4]=fr&languages[5]=it&languages[6]=zh&languages[7]=pt&drilldown=human&fbclid=IwAR3eMQiCbzcL6RTTOTBsVhBMIh2DcNLPKoTDg0SNfxdP2bxaJz7A7t_b4rk |website=wikipediaviews.org |accessdate=2 February 2020}}</ref>
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[[File:Quora in languages.png|thumb|center|500px]]
  
 
==Meta information on the timeline==
 
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* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheCuriosity2/permalink/4080920785268480/ The Curiosity] Facebook group
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* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/371729453645676/permalink/962091187942830/ Quora best Q/A] Facebook group
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* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/knowledge.group1/permalink/1058704357894584 Knowledge Group] Facebook group
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* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/QuoraPartners/permalink/830308544383659/ Quora Partners] Facebook group
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===What the timeline is still missing===
 
===What the timeline is still missing===

Latest revision as of 20:11, 6 March 2024

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This is a timeline of Quora, a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, and organized by its community of users.

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The following are some interesting questions that can be answered by reading this timeline:

  • How did the service evolve over time? What are important features and additions?
    • Sort the full timeline by "Event type" and look for the group of rows with value "Product".
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Time period Development summary
2009 Quora is founded.
2010–2011 Quora grows spectacularly in usership, giving the website more than 150,000 users.[1] Quora is reviewed extensively by the media in 2010.[2][3][4]
2012 Quora surpasses US$400 million in value.[1]
2013 Quora launches a blogging feature, where anyone or writers can share their knowledge.[5] A full-text search of questions and answers is released.[6] The site reports 50 percent growth in the year.[7]
2014 Quora joins startup accelerator Y Combinator.[8] After drawing an $80 million funding from Tiger Global, the company is valued at $900 million.[6]
2015 Quora replaces the credit system with a simpler system that automatically ranks all posts depending on several factors, including user activity and level of expertise of the author.[9]
2016 Quora becomes a multilingual platform.[10] The site also introduces the opportunity to advertise goods and services of third-party resources. Since then, advertising becomes the only way to monetize a project.[6][9]
2017 Quora reaches 200 million unique visitors every month.[11] The site is valued at $1.8 billion following a funding round that raised $85 million.[12] Quora World Meetup starts.[13]
2018 Quora reaches 300 million unique visitors every month.[11][14] The company introduces a program that offers incentives to users that ask questions. Entertainment, travel, business, marketing, learning, and technology are the most popular topics on the site.[15]
2019 Quora reaches value of US$2 billion in the Silicon Valley.[16]


Full timeline

Year Month and date (if available) Event type Details
2009 June 1 Startup launch Quora is founded by ex-Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever.
2010 January 4 Quora first launches in private beta.[17]
2010 March Funding Quora raises $11 million in a series A, with Benchmark Capital as an investor[18] The company reaches a value of US$86 million.[19]
2010 June 21 Product Quora is first launched for user access.[6][20]
2010 September Product Quora introduces ability to insert images into feeds.[21]
2010 December Userbase 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.[22]
2011 January Team Marc Bodnick leaves Elevation Partners to join Quora[23]
2011 February Technology Quora chooses C++ over C for its high performance services[24]
2011 June Product Quora redesigns the navigation and usability of its website.[25]
2011 July Product Quora introduces video to its Q&A pages[26]
2011 July Product Quora introduces Credits for asking-to-answer questions[27]
2011 August 19 Early development In an answer to the question "How did Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever come up with the name Quora?" written on Quora, 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."[28]
2011 September Product Quora introduces threaded comments and comment voting.[29][30]
2011 December 5 Product Quora announces iPhone and iPod touch app.[31]
2011 December 15 Recognition Quora is mentioned in the White House blog.[32]
2011 December 19 Product Quora introduces Boards, a feature that allows users create any number of boards and post any kind of content to them. Users can write new posts, repost questions, answers, topics, or anything else that already exists on Quora, and they can also post a link to any page from the web.[33]
2012 January 17 Product The Quora Follow Button is introduced, with the purpose to help users discover great Quora users from outside of www.quora.com, like blogs and personal websites.[34]
2012 February 15 Advertising Quora announces it has a blog on the Huffington Post, which is aimed at highlighting some of Quora's best answers and posts.[35]
2012 February 23 Product Quora for iPhone v1.3 Update becomes available, including updates like the ability to attach links to the user's posts.[36]
2012 March 3 Program launch Codesprint Quora launches as the first-ever company sprint, designed for programmers to test their prowess, with the intention to hire engineers, product engineers and data analysts.[37]
2012 March 6 Partnership Quora announces partnership with online magazine Slate, with the purpose to share each week Quora's favorite answers with the Slate audience.[38]
2012 March 15 Partnership Motivated by its very active community around the The Hunger Games topic, Quora partners with information service Moviefone, with the purpose to post some of Quora's most notable Hunger Game answers.[39][40]
2012 May 10 Product Quora introduces a feature that allows users more easily share their Quora activity with their Facebook friends by adding Quora to their Facebook Timelines.[41]
2012 May Funding Quora raises $50 million in a series B, with Peter Thiel and Adam D'Angelo as investors[18]
2012 June 14 Product With the purpose to help users get the best content from Quora with finding out the latest activity they're interested in, Quora launches its Most Recent feed feature, which shows new content and recent activity by followed people.[42]
2012 June 15 Notable contribution Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales posts his first answers to questions on Quora.[43]
2012 July 23–27 Competition Quora hosts Quorachella, a hackathon dedicated to work on projects that the company thinks will have a big impact but aren't on the official product plan.[44]
2012 August 1 Product Quora introcudes Views, a feature that lets users see which other users are reading which posts. The feature displays how many views a particular question, answer, or post has received, and users can click on the number to see even more detailed information, including registered users who viewed the post, as well as how they found it, whether through a particular topic or another user.[45][46][47]
2012 August 14 Product Quora changes the way it displays information on users' activity after a flood of complaints about the site's recently-introduced Views feature. When a user views a post, this action would no longer appear in other users' news feeds but views would still be displayed on post pages themselves.[48][49][50]
2012 August 21 Product Quora launches Embedded Quotes feature, basically a widget that facilitates web site owners to include Quora content in their blog posts, articles and web pages.[51][52][53]
2012 Sugust 22 Product Quora content is introduced on the Bing social sidebar of users in the United States, "helping them find relevant Quora content in an easy way without scrolling through pages of search results".[54]
2012 August 24 Product Quora introduces topic suggestions which would show up on questions where there might be other relevant topics to add.[55]
2012 September Leadership Co-founder Charlie Cheever moves away from day-to-day operations at Quora and is announced as an advisor to the company.[56][57][58]
2012 November Product Quora introduces Top Writers program as a way to recognize individuals having made especially valuable content contributions to the site and encourage them to continue.[59]
2013 January Product Quora introduces a blogging platform allowing users to post non-answer content.[60]
2013 March Product Quora introduces a policy eliminating image-only answers.[61]
2013 March 20 Product Quora launches a full-text search of questions and answers on its website.[62][63]
2013 March 22 Product Quora launches Muting, a new feature aimed at helping users manage and filter their feed.[64]
2013 May Userbase Quora announces that usage metrics tripled relative to the same time in the prior year.[65]
2013 May 28 Advertising Quora releases a film describing what it's like to work at the company.[66]
2013 May 29 Product Quora launches full-text mobile search on both iPhone (Quora for iPhone 2.3) and Android (Quora for Android 1.2). Both apps now offer the same full-text, keyword-based search capability that users can use on the computer.[67][68]
2013 July 9 Product Quora releases version 2.4 of Quora for iPhone, which facilitates adding a question by introducing a shortcut at the bottom of the home screen.[69]
2013 September 23 Partnership Quora announces a new content partnership with the BBC.com, with the purpose to blend contribution from Quora's global community of writers with the BBC's own storytelling into regular columns across the BBC.com feature sections.[70]
2013 October 29 Product Quora releases version 3.1 of Quora for iPhone, which includes features like facilitating addition of photos from answers, posts, and comments, and facilitating users to tap the "Add Question" button at the bottom of the search results page and get an answer to their question while on-the-go.[71]
2013 November 12 Product 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.[72][73]
2014 March 6 Partnership Quora announces partnership with American publishing company Simon & Schuster with the purpose to attract many of its authors onto Quora.[74]
2014 March 24 Product Quora announces its Verified Profiles feature for public figures, with aims at giving readers confidence in the authenticity of public figures who write on the site. On the same day United States President Barack Obama answers two questions.[75][76][77]
2014 April Funding Quora raises $80 million in a series C at $900 million valuation, with Tiger Global Management and Y Combinator as investors[18][78]
2014 June 13 Policy Quora announces its intention to allow organizational accounts on the site, starting with an official company account for Quora itself.[79]
2014 June 5 Partnership TIME partners with Quora in order to bring its growing audience the "best content from the site that has quickly established itself as a go-to place for answers on the web."[80]
2014 June Funding Quora becomes one of the Summer 2014 Y Combinator companies.[81]
2014 July 11 Product Quora for Android version 2.0 is introduced as a redesign of Quora on Android. The app is faster and presents some important new features, like facilitating question asking, instant feed, and a "full-featured rich-text editor with a complete set of editing tools for Android users on 4.0 and above".[82]
2014 November 18 Product Quora introduces an all-new mobile website, with aims at offering a website reading experience that is as good as the app. Everything is made easier, including adding a question, writing an answer, and browsing feed just a tap away.[83]
2014 November 18 Product Quora announces product parity across all platforms: Android, iPhone, iPad, mobile web, and desktop web. This means any action users can take on Quora can be performed on every platform, including features like editing child and parent topics, reverting operations, and marking questions as best source.[84]
2014 December 18 Product Quora introduces a new system aimed at making notifications much more manageable and useful. Upvotes and follows that are less relevant to users wouldn't be sent individually, instead being aggregated into grouped notifications and sent once a day. This includes random upvotes on old answers, upvotes and follows from people users don't know, who have almost no followers, etc. Notifications that are more relevant would still be sent individually and immediately. These include things like upvotes and follows from people users may know or be interested in, as well as upvotes on recent answers.[85]
2014 Controversy Quora starts attracting continued controversy for using robots.txt to instruct crawlers such as the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to not index or archive the site.[86][87]
2015 January 8 Notable contribution American show host Glenn Beck publishes his first answer to a question on Quora.[88]
2015 January 21 Policy Quora announces a change in its moderation system introducing reporting as the sole method for dealing with content or users that violate Quora. Until then, a handful of active users (Quora Admins and Quora Reviewers (both discontinued programs)) had moderation capabilities, most notably, the ability to collapse an answer or block a user.[89]
2015 January 29 Product Quora introduces a new page for writers, with aims at offering a focused experience for those who want to answer questions that provides new ways of discovering questions, better question suggestions, more control over what questions users see, and new tools for managing the questions users want to answer. Some of the bigger changes include a new page called "Write" that replaces "Open Questions", better question suggestions from the "Top Questions" feed, a new tool called "Answer Later" to help keep track of questions users want to answer, integration of users' "Knows About" topics so they can keep up to date with new questions from them, and a "Pass" button to let users know which questions they don't want to answer.[90]
2015 February 10 Product Quora introduces Search Filters, a tool that allows users filter search results by topic, author, recency, and content type.[91]
2015 May 6 Product Quora introduces Question Merging, giving everyone access to a powerful new tool for instantly merging together duplicate questions.[92]
2015 May 19 Product Quora facilitates tool for users who render LaTeX and introduces MathJax, a popular library used by many math communities.[93]
2015 June 1 Product Quora introduces Labs, a strategy for testing features not introduced broadly but as an option for users to try out. The first Labs feature is also introduced: Keyboard Shortcuts, a tool aimed at enabling users to navigate and take actions on Quora on the web "without ever lifting their fingers off the keyboard".[94]
2015 June 9 Product Quora introduces new logo.[95]
2015 June 17 Product Quora introduces Re-Ask, a tool aimed at improving the way that users interact with questions on Quora.[96]
2015 June 19 Product Quora launches an improved embeds product that lets users easily share Quora answers to blogs and publishing platforms such as Medium and LinkedIn.[97]
2015 August 5 Product Quora announces a simpler and more effective Ask to Answer system, consisting in elimination of credit costs, and allowing anyone to send an Ask to Answer request to anyone else. Ask to Answer requests would be prioritized based on both quality and volume.[98]
2015 August 13 Product Quora introduces Most Viewed Writers on topics, a tool showing the 10 writers with the most answer views in a topic in the last 30 days.[99]
2015 October 8 Product Quora introduces Ask Bar, a tool meant to help search content, ask questions, as well as navigate Quora faster.[100]
2015 November 10 Product Quora announces new default mode for messaging that, with some exceptions, users would only receive messages from people they follow. This change means that new messages users receive would generally be from people that they connect with, decreasing the risk of spam or harassment from strangers.[101]
2015 November 19 Product Quora launches Writing Sessions, a feature similar to Reddit's Ask Me Anything. Users can submit questions that are prioritized by popularity.[102][103][104][105]
2015 November 24 Notable contribution International terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins posts his first answers to questions on Quora.[106]
2015 November 25 Policy Quora introduces changes with aims at helping reduce repeat offenders of the policies. New features include faster response to repeated policy violations, improved communications of Quora's moderation decisions, and new user education.[107]
2015 December 1 Notable contribution United States presiadential candidate Hillary Clinton posts her first answers to questions on Quora.[108]
2015 December 4 Product Quora introduces a new editor with the purpose to improve the site aesthetically and functionaly. The editing toolbar is redesigned, and includes a new tool to add links and footnotes, nested lists, easier math and code formatting, keyboard shortcuts, and hundreds of bugs fixed.[109]
2016 January 20 Notable contribution American political activist Gloria Steinem publishes her first answers to questions on Quora.[110]
2016 January 27 Product Quora announces a bounty system, offering financial bounties for the best answer (selected by the question asker) on select questions.[111]
2016 February 22 Notable contribution American actress Eva Longoria posts her first answers to questions on Quora.[112]
2016 February 24 Product Quora introduces new answer pages, designed for answer writers to have a place to showcase their work without distraction. On the other hand, the question page is already comprehensive and includes many elements that make the page very helpful to readers.[113]
2016 March 8 Notable contribution American politician Elizabeth Warren publishes her first answer to aquestion on Quora.[114]
2016 March 30 Acquisition Quora acquires Parlio, an online Q&A site started by Wael Ghonim.[115]
2016 April 11 Notable contribution American author Thomas Friedman posts his first answers to questions on Quora.[116]
2016 April 19 Advertising Quora announces that it will start out testing advertisements, on a small number of question pages.[117][118]
2016 April 27 Notable contribution Mathematician John Urschel publishes his first answer to a question on Quora.[119]
2016 May 3 Notable contribution The Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington publishes her first answer to questions on Quora.[120]
2016 May 26 Team Marc Bodnick, Quora's public face and leader of its business and moderation team, announces that he is leaving the company.[121]
2016 June 8 Notable contribution British TED head Chris Anderson posts his first answer to questions on Quora.[122]
2016 June 26 Security Google CEO Sundar Pichai's account on Quora is hacked.[123][124][125]
2016 August Market expansion Quora announces support for the Spanish, its second language.[126][127][128]
2016 November Team Kelly Battles announced as new chief financial officer (CFO).[129][130]
2017 January 4 Product Quora on Voice is introduced, available for Google Home and Amazon Echo. To use Quora on Google Home, the user must ask the question by saying “Ok Google, ask Quora”. To use it on Amazon Echo, the user must say “Alexa, ask Quora”.[131]
2017 January 12 Competition Chinese question-and-answer website Zhihu is valued at a billion dollars after securing US$100 million in series D funding.[132] "Zhihu, also known as China’s Quora, has closed a US$100 million round of funding, the company said on Thursday."[133]
2017 January 30 Product Quora announces the first in what it plans to be a series of public dataset releases, which would be oriented around various problems of relevance to Quora and would give researchers in diverse areas such as machine learning, natural language processing, network science, etc. "the opportunity to try their hand at some of the challenges that arise in building a scalable online knowledge-sharing platform".[134]
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.[135][136]
2017 February 23 Content creation Quora announces it is officially using and contributing to Wikidata, a knowledge base run by the Wikimedia Foundation that is collaboratively edited like Wikipedia.[137][138]
2017 February 28 Market expansion Quora announces French version available in beta.[139][140]
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.[141][142] The funding would help the company expand internationally and develop its ad business.[143]
2017 April Userbase Quora claims to have 190 million monthly unique visitors, up from 100 million a year earlier.[144]
2017 May 11 Product Quora launches beta versions in German and Italian.[145]
2017 May 22 Product Quora 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.[146][147]
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.[148][149][150] Initial advertiser feedback praises the interface and the cost-effectiveness but asks for larger reach and more granular targeting options.[151]
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).[152][153]
2017 August Public reaction 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 URL.[154][155]
2017 September 25 Market expansion Japanese Quora launches.[156]
2017 September 29 Product 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.[147]
2017 October Competition Polish P2P learning platform Brainly raises US$14 million for its Quora-like service. The company already has 10% of the market of kids in that age group.[157][158][159]
2017 November 6–11 Meeting event Quora launches its first World Meetup Week. Each meetup has a designated lead, who serves as the organizer of the event.[160] Nearly 3,000 writers in over 100 cities gathered to celebrate the event.[161]
2018 March Product Quora introduces updates to its ads platform. The ad pixel now supports multi-event conversion tracking. View-through conversion tracking and updated metrics reporting are also introduced.[162]
2018 March Product Quora releases List Match Audiences, which allows advertisers to upload customer or prospect email lists to Quora for ad targeting or exclusions. Advertisers can also create lookalike audiences from List Match.[163]
2018 April 24 Program launch Quora announces the Quora Partner Program, with the purpose to "compensate participants for adding good questions that many people in the world may have".[164]
2018 April Market expansion Quora announces beta versions in Hindi, Portuguese, and Indonesian.[165]
2018 May 22 Product Quora expands its advertising offerings with the launch of image ads. The new format is available on mobile and desktop.[166][167]
2018 June Notable contribution Adam D'Angelo announces 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 Quora. The announcement is made at the Global Digital Summit in Tokyo, a technology event hosted by Nikkei.[168]
2018 June 20–25 Meeting event The second Quora World Meetup takes place in several cities around the world.[161]
2018 June 5 Market expansion Quora launches service in Hindi, Portuguese, and Indonesian.[169][170]
2018 August Product Quora introduces the ability for users to share links.[171]
2018 September Product Quora introduces Broad Targeting, a targeting option that relies on machine learning to optimize ad delivery to reach users most likely to take the desired action.[11]
2018 September Userbase As of date, Quora has 300 million unique users.[6]
2018 December 3 Security Quora reports a security breach that gained access to the personal data of as many as 100 million of its users. The breach includes encrypted passwords, and questions people have asked, as well as answers, upvotes and downvotes.[172][173][174][175][6]
2018 November 7 Product Quora ends support of user blogs and introduces a new feature called "Spaces", which allows people to curate collections and form communities around shared interests and tastes.[176]
2019 January Product Quora introduces Keyword Targeting in the Quora Ads platform, enabling advertisers to target questions that contain specific keywords.[177][178]
2019 January Userbase Quora reports userbase composed of a 43/57 female to male ratio.[15]
2019 January 16 Product Quora announces support for Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Bengali, Marathi, and Tamil languages.[179][180]
2019 January 31 Product Quora 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, 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. A second feature, Impression Share, is the percentage of auctions the ad set entered and won an ad impression. A third feature, Absolute Impression Share, is the percentage of auctions that the ad set entered and won.[181]
2019 February 27 Product Quora introduces the ability to bulk edit and bulk create ads within the Quora Ads Manager.[182][183]
2019 April Product Quora announces the integration of the Quora Pixel with Google Tag Manager, streamlining the process of adding the Pixel to a website.[184]
2019 May Product Quora announces a new integration with Google Tag Manager to help streamline its data tracking tools, while also launches a new podcast which focuses on how businesses are using Quora's ad tools to reach engaged audiences.[185]
2019 May Financial Quora is valued at US$2 billion in a round of investors which amassing US$60 million sponsored mainly by Tesla and SpaceX.[6]
2019 June 16–23 Meeting event The third annual Quora World Meetup Week takes place. It is hosted in over 100 cities around the world.[186]
2019 August Competition Chinese question-and-answer website Zhihu completes a US$434 million series F funding round, the largest sum it has raised to-date.[187]
2019 August Product Quora integrates LiveRamp IdentityLink in Quora Ads Manager, enabling the advertisers to onboard people-based audiences.[188]
2019 September Userbase According to Alexa Internet, India makes up the largest user base at 38%, followed by the United States at 26%, with an overall global site ranking of 233.[189]
2019 October 17 Market expansion Quora announces the launch of beta versions of 7 new languages: Arabic, Gujarati, Hebrew, Kannada, Malayalam, Polish, and Telugu.[190]
2019 October Product Quora adds 3 new targeting options for advertisers: Keyword history targeting, which enables users to reach people who have shown an interest in subjects related to the users' business based on the keywords they are using; gender targeting, an option aimed at helping advertisers direct spend to their target customers; and the ability to target ad sets to specific desktop browsers, including Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox.[191]
2019 November Leadership 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.[192][193][194]
2019 December 9 Market expansion Quora announces launch in Arabic, Gujarati, Hebrew, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu languages.[195]
2019 December Facility Quora announces that it would open its first international engineering office in Vancouver, which would deal with machine learning and other engineering functions.[196]
2019 December Product Quora launches Lead Gen Forms Ads, enabling advertisers to gain leads directly on Quora’s platform.[197]
2019 December 17 Market expansion In a bid to attract the rising number of internet users in 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.[198]
2019 December 23 Userbase Quora announces over 300 million monthly unique visitors.[199]
2020 January 1 Legal A retired Palestinian American professor files a lawsuit against Quora at the 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 anti-Zionist views.[200]
2020 January 15 Ranking According to Amazon Alexa Rank 90 Day Trend, Quora ranks 216th in global internet engagement.[201]
2020 January 23 Personnel Quora announces personnel layoff. CEO Adam D’Angelo writes that the cuts include "eliminating certain roles in our Bay Area and New York offices, along with some other organizational changes", with the purpose to "continue to operate independently regardless of the economic environment."[202][203][204]

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Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of October 20, 2021.

Year Quora
2010 88
2011 384
2012 581
2013 699
2014 891
2015 1,340
2016 2,320
2017 3,590
2018 4,820
2019 5,100
2020 4,840
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Google Trends

The comparative chart below shows Google Trends data for Quora (Website), Reddit (Website) and Yahoo! Answers (Website), from June 2009 to April 2021, when the screenshot was taken. Interest is also ranked by country and displayed on world map.[205]

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Google Trends

The chart below shows Google Ngram Viewer data for Quora, from 2009 to 2019.[206]

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Wikipedia pageviews

The chart below shows pageviews of the English Wikipedia article Quora, on desktop from December 2007, and on mobile-web, desktop-spider, mobile-web-spider and mobile app, from July 2015; to March 2021.[207]

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The image below shows cross-language Wikipedia views comparison of the page Quora in Chinese (zh), German (de), Spanish (es), Russian (ru), French (fr), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), and Portuguese Wikipedias.[208]

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