Let us do the a simple comparison Between the the famous sites " question-and-answer " ask.fm And quora
Ask.fm is a social networking website based in Riga, Latvia, where users can ask other users questions, with the option of anonymity. The site was founded by brothers Ilja and Mark Terebin of Latvia,[6] launched on June 16, 2010, as a rival to the now-defunct Spring.me (then known as "Formspring"),[3] which it eventually overtook in terms of traffic. IAC's Ask.com acquired the site on August 14, 2014,[8] and as part of the deal, removed the founding members, Ilja and Mark Terebin of Latvia.[9] As a criteria for doing the deal, IAC also proactively initiated an agreement with the Attorneys General of New York and Maryland to revamp the site's safety policies and procedures, including the appointment of former yahoo! safety executive Catherine Teitelbaum to the role of global Chief Trust and Safety Officer and a commitment to enact a safety advisory board of experts
Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.
Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers.
:History Ask.fm
Ask.fm was created in June 16, 2010. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. On August 14, 2014, Ask.fm was acquired by popular web search engine Ask.com
As part of the deal the two brothers who started the site, Ilja and Mark Terebin, agreed to sever their involvement.
:History Quora
Quora was co-founded by two former Facebook employees, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever. D'Angelo resigned from his position at Facebook in January 2010 to create Quora.[5] He said that he and Cheever were inspired to create Quora because "we thought that Q & A is one of those areas on the internet where there are a lot of sites, but no one had come along and built something that was really good yet."[6] Quora's base of users grew quickly in December 2010.[7]
Quora had an estimated 500,000 registered users, as of January 2011.[8] In June 2011, Quora redesigned its website, in order to make information discovery and navigation easier. Some noted that the redesigned site had definite similarities to Wikipedia.[9] Quora released an official iPhone app on September 29, 2011 [10] and an official Android app on September 5, 2012.[11]
In September 2012, co-founder Charlie Cheever announced that he was stepping back from a day-to-day role at the company, while continuing to retain an advisory role.[12][13]
In January 2013, Quora launched a blogging platform.[14]
Quora launched full text search of questions and answers on its website on March 20, 2013,[15] and extended the feature to mobile devices in late May 2013.[16] It also announced in May 2013 that all its metrics had grown 3X relative to the same time last year.[17]
On November 12, 2013, Quora introduced a feature they called Stats that they billed as a dashboard for writers. This would allow all Quora users to see summary and detailed statistics regarding how many people had viewed, upvoted, followed, and shared their questions and answers.[18][19] TechCrunch reported that, although Quora did not have any immediate plans for monetization, they believed that search ads would likely be their eventual source of monetization.[20]
In April 2014, it was announced that Quora was raising $80 million from Tiger Global at a reported $900 million valuation.
Quora was also one of the members of the Summer 2014 Y Combinator batch
