Zhihu disseminates users' knowledge, experience and opinions.

Shells spread scientific and technological knowledge.

2. Different purposes:

Zhihu focuses on solving users' life and study problems, and also analyzes and discusses various social problems.

Shells focus on arousing public interest in science and technology, so that people can interpret and create interesting science and technology about life around them.

3. The active population is different:

The active users of shells are generally certified majors with academic literacy, and people with high academic qualifications can conduct academic exchanges here.

Zhihu's active users are people from a certain industry, who pay attention to experience and opinions, especially some IT elites whose bosses are active in Zhihu.

Extended data:

The origin of the shell name:

Hamlet once said, "Although I am in a shell; Still think that you are the king of the infinite universe "; Hawking wrote a book "The Universe in the Shell" on this topic, which hinted at his time in a wheelchair.

The founder of Shell Network thought of this allusion in the bath and decided to name the website after the shell: The network is our shell, but dear readers, what we are talking about here is as big as the universe and as small as the atom, and nothing can restrain our curiosity.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhihu

Baidu Encyclopedia-Guo Ke. com