Final week, Google revealed it signed a cope with Reddit to entry its content material utilizing an API so it could actually get the content material quicker and in a structured format. This deal prices Google $60 million yearly. There’s now hypothesis that Google would possibly make an identical cope with Quora.
Glenn Gabe posted that Quora’s variety of ranked pages has jumped considerably. Glenn wrote, “the variety of pages rating in Google doubled for Reddit because the “hidden gems” piece rolled out.” He puzzled then if Google had some kind of entry to Reddit’s firehose. So he was inquisitive about Quora.
He wrote:
And since Quora additionally surged like loopy then rankings-wise, I checked the variety of pages rating within the prime 100 based mostly on Semrush knowledge. And yep, that has additionally surged like loopy. In Could of 2023, 6M pages ranked in Google for Quora. As of right now, 10.4M pages rank (a 73% enhance). In order that begs the query… is Quora additionally offering Google a firehose of urls and content material? Desperate to be taught extra about this… if one other deal is introduced.
Glenn shared this chart displaying the variety of rating pages in Google Seek for Quora and the way it climbed actually shortly just lately:
Ori Zilbershtein added, “The factor nobody will be capable of show: Google and Reddit execs meet, they make a deal. You get entry to our knowledge, however we have to present we’re rising and get huge quantity of visitors as we plan to go public.”
In fact, that is all hypothesis however Google wants its hidden gems to shine, proper?
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