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Is Forbes really scraping content from Quora and presenting it as an article?

by Jgrubb 13y ago

eterm 13y ago
This struck me also. I initially thought "blimey, does HN provide them so much traffic that they're linkbaiting them now", but taking Quora content and repackaging it is just even lower. It particularly struck me that HN very recently had an article that kicked off this exact debate. What a sad state of affairs, although the full advert splash and the junky "similar" articles give that impression too.
- epoxyhockey 13y ago
  Forbes has been linkbaiting HN for at least 73 days (the time when I first cared to comment about it). Our clicks are providing positive reinforcement for Forbes' blogspam and I'm surprised that HN hasn't banned forbes.com yet.
austinz 13y ago
Forbes' web site has been for a while little more than a collection of badly-curated, badly-written blogs. This seems like a logical next step.
zach 13y ago
Forbes and Quora have an arrangement to republish content from Quora that's interesting to Forbes readers. The authors are asked individually if they want their answers to appear on Forbes and receive no compensation.
chadwickthebold 13y ago
It's not entirely slimy. Its a great way to drive traffic for both Forbes and Quora. How many people would have read this opinion if Forbes hadn't made it slightly more high-profile? Ars has been doing a similar feature-series for awhile, and I think its one of the best parts of their site: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/how-easy-is-it-to-hack-javascript-in-a-browser/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/how-ea... I will give you that the Ars series is edited much much better than this one-off from Forbes
- smacktoward 13y ago
  It says a lot about Quora that the best way to discover content on Quora is for it to run on another site.
ngoel36 13y ago
I want to say that BusinessInsider does this with some r/AskReddit and r/IAmA threads as well

Is Forbes really scraping content from Quora and presenting it as an article?

by Jgrubb 13y ago

Is Forbes really scraping content from Quora and presenting it as an article?

eterm 13y ago

This struck me also. I initially thought "blimey, does HN provide them so much traffic that they're linkbaiting them now", but taking Quora content and repackaging it is just even lower. It particularly struck me that HN very recently had an article that kicked off this exact debate. What a sad state of affairs, although the full advert splash and the junky "similar" articles give that impression too.

epoxyhockey 13y ago
Forbes has been linkbaiting HN for at least 73 days (the time when I first cared to comment about it). Our clicks are providing positive reinforcement for Forbes' blogspam and I'm surprised that HN hasn't banned forbes.com yet.

austinz 13y ago

Forbes' web site has been for a while little more than a collection of badly-curated, badly-written blogs. This seems like a logical next step.

zach 13y ago

Forbes and Quora have an arrangement to republish content from Quora that's interesting to Forbes readers. The authors are asked individually if they want their answers to appear on Forbes and receive no compensation.

chadwickthebold 13y ago

It's not entirely slimy. Its a great way to drive traffic for both Forbes and Quora. How many people would have read this opinion if Forbes hadn't made it slightly more high-profile? Ars has been doing a similar feature-series for awhile, and I think its one of the best parts of their site: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/how-easy-is-it-to-hack-javascript-in-a-browser/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/how-ea... I will give you that the Ars series is edited much much better than this one-off from Forbes

smacktoward 13y ago
It says a lot about Quora that the best way to discover content on Quora is for it to run on another site.

ngoel36 13y ago

I want to say that BusinessInsider does this with some r/AskReddit and r/IAmA threads as well