Final week, Google revealed it signed a deal with Reddit to entry its content material utilizing an API so it might get the content material quicker and in a structured format. This deal prices Google $60 million yearly. There’s now hypothesis that Google may make the same 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 form of entry to Reddit’s firehose. So he was interested in Quora.
He wrote:
And since Quora additionally surged like loopy then rankings-wise, I checked the variety of pages rating within the high 100 primarily based on Semrush information. And yep, that has additionally surged like loopy. In Could of 2023, 6M pages ranked in Google for Quora. As of at this time, 10.4M pages rank (a 73% improve). In order that begs the query… is Quora additionally offering Google a firehose of urls and content material? Wanting 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 not too long ago:
Ori Zilbershtein added, “The factor nobody will have the ability to show: Google and Reddit execs meet, they make a deal. You get entry to our information, however we have to present we’re rising and get huge quantity of site visitors as we plan to go public.”
After all, that is all hypothesis however Google wants its hidden gems to shine, proper?
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