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Sure -- you're right that the SE engine is definitely only good at specific things (namely, fact/data/science based questions), but it is arguably the best in the world at those particular things.

What is the Quora engine the best in the world at?

I'd look at growth, too. Even the less popular SE sites grow at very respectable rates. How much is Quora growing?




Since neither his comment nor his profile mention it, I'll mention here for those unaware that this guy is co-founder of Stack Exchange.


Well, he resigned from S.O. two years ago (http://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/ ) and most of the users here know that the founders of S.O. were codinghorror and spolsky.


"coddinghorror" gives it away though :-)


Only to those who already knew.

Edit for clarity in case I was misunderstood


If true, thanks for disclosing. Amazed commenter failed to disclose. Transparency and conflicts, people!


I would imagine most people reading HN have read at least one blog post on his site, if not many more. It's not that amazing he didn't disclose it in my opinion. I agree it could be mentioned in his profile though, just for the curious.


If that bugs you, think a bit about how the conflicts of upvoters/downvoters are totally obscured.




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