Why Is Quora Valued at Over a Billion Dollars?

[chronon]

The question and answer site Quora is being touted as worth over a billion dollars (http://www.businessinsider.com/quora-would-turn-down-a-1-billion-offer-says-investor-2011-2), but it looks to me to be another online forum. Can anyone see why it should have such a ridiculous valuation. Would anyone ask a question on Quora rather than PF?

 

[Insanity]

Never heard of the site before.

The following sites that do website value calculations based on web traffic.

http://www.mywebsiteprice.com/details/quora.com
[PLAIN]http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/www.quora.com[/PLAIN] 
http://www.urlappraisal.net/appraisal/quora.com.html

From these three, the approximately value is $2,564,234.67

Who knows.

 

[wuliheron]

The question and answer site Quora is being touted as worth over a billion dollars (http://www.businessinsider.com/quora-would-turn-down-a-1-billion-offer-says-investor-2011-2), but it looks to me to be another online forum. Can anyone see why it should have such a ridiculous valuation. Would anyone ask a question on Quora rather than PF?

I agree, its just a Facebook version of Wikipedia as far as I can tell. In fact, Wikipedia should maybe take the hint and try funding itself with a similar social network.

 

[IMP]

Just for grins I did PhysicsForums.com http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/www.physicsforums.com and it claims $129,383

 

[Pengwuino]

Why doesn't PF have its own wikipedia page, that's the question.

 

[QuarkCharmer]

Why doesn't PF have its own wikipedia page, that's the question.

It does sort of?

Sometimes I see keywords in peoples text that link to some sort of wiki.

 

[Drakkith]

It does sort of?

Sometimes I see keywords in peoples text that link to some sort of wiki.

To an article about PF?

 

[QuarkCharmer]

Oh, "a page on wikipedia about pf". Nevermind.

 

[rhody]

Why doesn't PF have its own wikipedia page, that's the question.

I nominate our infamous flippered bird for the task, does anyone second me ?

Rhody...

 

[Drakkith]

I nominate our infamous flippered bird for the task, does anyone second me ?

Rhody...

First I'd like to know how he types using flippers.

 

[Pengwuino]

I nominate our infamous flippered bird for the task, does anyone second me ?

Rhody...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FisicsForums

Physics Forums is a popular web-site for professional scientists and engineers, students, crackpots, and aquatic creatures. It was founded in 2015 by unknown extra-terrestrials. It currently averages 20,530 hits per day with 3 unique users; a user Pengwuino accounts for 20525 of these hits on average.

 

[rhody]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FisicsForums

Physics Forums is a popular web-site for professional scientists and engineers, students, crackpots, and aquatic creatures. It was founded in 2015 by unknown extra-terrestrials. It currently averages 20,530 hits per day with 3 unique users; a user Pengwuino accounts for 20525 of these hits on average.

Cute Pengy, cute...

We are not FisicsForums we are PhysicsForums... Now, get with the program !

Rhody...

 

[Simfish]

Heh, I got so addicted to Quora that I practically stopped going everywhere else for 6 months.

It takes some time getting used to though.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_quora/ shows its real ambition. Basically, there's a lot of contributor fatigue on Wikipedia (http://gawker.com/5827835/wikipedia-is-slowly-dying) so people get more excited about contributing to Quora

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Would anyone ask a question on Quora rather than PF?

You're asking the wrong crowd.