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People have already written why such a hype is generally a bad idea and in the case of Quora particularly.

He has invested some of his own money and Benchmark's in several companies founded by former colleagues, including Quora and Asana.

I've been on Quora for a few days now and have tested it so to say.

Only the questions, topic labels, user names or post titles are indexed and served up to the search-box.

To minimize that decline, Quora will have to shift the core of its efforts from engineering to moderation, says Burbidge.

Quora publicly introduced its question-and-answer service in June. Facebook followed with a similar service a month later.

Quora: Although different to Yahoo Answers, which it replaced, Quora is now the Q& A platform everybody is talking about.

This approach generated the insider content that led to a recent surge in users and media attention.

And Quora, a website where people discuss serious topics, helps people find answers to questions without having to hire anyone by the hour.

Quora has social- networking features similar to those of the microblogging service Twitter.

Yet Brown believes Quora could still reshape the Web without becoming a blockbuster to rival Yahoo Answers.

I'm "following" (subscribed to) topics on Quora like startups, journalism, food and the New York Times.

You can follow me on both Q&A sites, Yahoo Answers and Quora if you like but as I said I'm mainly on Twitter.

Now that Quora has opened to the public, some users are complaining.

Quora represents a bigger technology trend, which is the layering of an interest graph on top of people's social graph.

I've created a thread on Quora whereexamples of persuasive technology are continually being added.

And the former head of Google China said on Quora that Alibaba and Ma aren't suited to manage Yahoo.

The pace questions get asked, answered, liked etc. is too fast on Quora.

Quora, which still has fewer than 20 employees, didn't respond to requests for an interview.

Before new users can post a question, for example, they must take a quiz on what makes an "appropriate" style for a question on Quora.

More recently, somebody on Quora wondered why Gameloft doesn't get sued.

What happens when you ask Quora that same question?

That will start to change in 2011, which I believe will be the year Quora has its Twitter moment and start to really take off.

Kommons's founder, Brown, also doubts that Quora can gain a lot of users and still maintain its current level of quality.

Quora, a social Q&A site that is a whole lot of fun to use and a great place to learn things trivial or useful.

Others can use LinkedIn or Quora to do the same.

Zhihu, the Chinese Quora, has a detailed description of attack.

Are you selling high quality services and goods for professionals and other businesses? Use Quora.

A most vexing question: Q&A site Quora was ironically left with the greatest puzzle of all - why its site was down