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List of largest companies by revenue. This list comprises the world's largest companies by consolidated revenue, according to the Fortune Global 500 2024 rankings and other sources. [2] American retail corporation Walmart has been the world's largest company by revenue since 2014. [1]
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Founding and naming
Quora was co-founded by former Facebook employees Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever in June 2009.In an answer to the question, "How did Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever come up with the name Quora?" Cheever wrote:
2010–2013: Early growth
In March 2010, Quora, Inc. was valued at $86million. Quora first became available to the public on August 11 2009, and was praised for its interface and for the quality of the answers written by its users, many of whom were recognized as experts in their fields. Quora's user base increased quickly, and by late December 2010, the site was seeing spikes of visitors five to ten times its usual load—so much that the website initially had difficulties handling the increased traffic. Until 2016, Qu...
2018–2019: Further growth and data breach
In September 2018, Quora reported that it was receiving 300million unique visitors every month. Despite its large number of registered users, Quora did not possess the same level of mainstream cultural dominance as sites like Twitter, which, at the time, had roughly 326million registered users. This may have been because a large number of registered users on the site did not use it regularly and many did not even know they had accounts since they had either created them unknowingly through ot...
Website
URL format URLs of questions contain only the question title without a numeric identifier as used on Stack Exchange sites (in addition to a URL slug), and /unanswered/before the title, if the question is unanswered. User interface With the help of asynchronous JavaScript and XML, some site functionality resembles instant messaging, such as updating follow counts and an indicator showing that a user is typing an answer.
Real name policy
Prior to April 19, 2021, Quora required users to register with the complete form of their real names rather than a pseudonym or other screen name; although verification of names was not required, false names could be reported by the community. This was done with the ostensible intent of adding credibility to answers. Users have the option to write their answers anonymously. Visitors unwilling to log in or use cookies used workarounds to access the site. Users may also log in with their Google...
Answer recommendations
Quora has developed its own proprietary algorithm to rank answers, which works similarly to Google's PageRank. Quora uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloudtechnology to host the servers that run its website. Currently, Quora has various ways of recommending questions to users: Home feed question recommendations 1. In this method, users[who?]have a timeline that is personalized to their preferences. Quora also provides "interesting" questions that are relevant to those preferences. Daily digest 1....
Reviews
Quora was reviewed extensively by the media in 2010. Quora was hacked in 2018, leading to loss of information of users to hackers. According to Robert Scoble, Quora succeeded in combining attributes of Twitter and Facebook.Later, in 2011, Scoble criticized Quora for being a "horrid service for blogging" and, although a decent question and answer website, not substantially better than alternatives. Quora was highly criticized for removing question details in August 2017. According to some user...
Use in influence operations
In 2018, the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, reported on the potential for Chinese citizens to use the platform to promote the image of China abroad. In 2020, Ben Nimmo, a founder of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, noted Quora's popularity as a place to create fake accounts and plant disinformation. In 2023, Meta Platforms stated that Chinese law enforcement's Spamouflage influence operationhad targeted Quora.
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