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Since quora has problems in the money department, how is their competitor Stack Exchange maintaining profit?
by readerrrr 12y ago
Since quora has problems in the money department, how is their competitor Stack Exchange maintaining profit?
- kaoD 12y agoProbably not being obnoxious to their potential users.
- serf 12y agoI don't know any numbers, but it seems as if Stack Exchange is far more popular, especially as an information database for employees and students. Quora has the opportunity to do the same, but I think the specific stack exchange communities offer a better partition between topics. Quora does it's best to show you targetted questions/comments, whereas StackExchange sites just throw you wherever you showed up (which, if by search, is usually a better choice) A good example : I once answered a fringe question about the Dalai Lama on Quora, now many of the questions i'm tasked with giving answers to are spiritual in nature, and of absolutely no interest to me. It's the same search bubble problem that YouTube/Google runs into occasionally. Things like that make me prefer more 'basic' sites like StackExchange networks.
- morgante 12y agoStack Exchange made the brilliant move of having disparate communities with a defined (and passionate) audience for each. This makes selling targeted advertising much easier. Ex. Stack Overflow is probably one of the best places to reach developers with job ads—hence they can charge a lot more for that than generic display ads. This is all pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if Stack Exchange's RPU would be 10x Quora's.