I don't understand why Quora seems to be a standard to some. It hides it's answers behind a registration wall and ask that you give it access to your Facebook profile on registration.

It's a creepy website from my perspective.

Not to mention quietly setting up a public profile page in your name that starts showing up among top results when people search for you. Creepy is right.

Perhaps the french version? http://www.google.com/baraza/fr/

Bandwith measures seems to be important, local infrastructure (lower ping), text-based access, ... many things to think of.

A lot of website use appeals when it has a local flavor. Quora and it's Silicon Valley answerers probably doesn't know how to answer the questions that many Non-US citizens might have. This has a lot to do with user base, and I don't see Quora marketing itself outside of America.

> I don't see Quora marketing itself outside of America.

Quora gets more traffic from India than the US. At least 30% of its user base is Indian[1]. Quora does very well overseas.

[1]:http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/02/26/india-passes-the-us-to-b...