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1. www.independent.co.uk › tech › yahoo-answers-shutHow Yahoo Answers went from Q&A site to total collapse

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   Apr 13, 2021 · Yahoo Answers’ homepage currently promotes questions including whether its closure is “proof of the new world order” or “because conservatives have exposed the Socialist takeover of...

2. www.cnet.com › culture › internetYahoo Answers is dead, but its weird and amusing ... - CNET

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   When Yahoolaunched its question-and-answer platform in 2005, becoming a mainstay of internet comedy wasn't part of the plan. The company billed the service as "a place where people can ask each other questions on any topic, and get answers by sharing facts, opinions and personal experiences." Even so, Yahoo Answers didn't exist for its own sake -- ...

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   Regardless of what Yahoo Answers was designed to be, it's best known for the surprising and ridiculous questions people asked it. In fact, before news broke of the shutdown, most searches for Yahoo Answers on Google, YouTube and other platforms brought back lists of absurd and amusing ponderings. There are dozens of comedy videos mocking Yahoo Answ...

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   After May 4, the Yahoo question-and-answer service will go the way of GeoCities. There'll be no official attempts to preserve or archive the service. Unless an outside group takes action, Yahoo Answers' millions of questions -- chaotic, hilarious and sublime -- will be lost to time. Fortunately, this is the internet, where there's always someone ha...

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3. slate.com › technology › 2021How can this be the end of Yahoo Answers? - Slate Magazine

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   Apr 9, 2021 · By Elena DeBré. April 09, 20216:02 PM. Yahoo Answers will be unplugged officially on May 4. Jon Tyson /Unsplash. In middle school, Alex Fong would spend 15 hours a week on Yahoo Answers,...

4. www.theverge.com › 2021/4/5 › 22368488Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th - The Verge

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   Apr 5, 2021 · Apr 5, 2021, 12:25 PM PDT. Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo...

5. www.nytimes.com › yahoo-answers-shutting-downYahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Published April 6, 2021 Updated April 7, 2021. At times on Yahoo Answers, the people asking questions of strangers lunged for the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity: What would a heaven...

6. www.theverge.com › 2021/4/6 › 22370034Yahoo Answers was the most earnest place on the internet

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Apr 6, 2021, 5:00 PM UTC. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images. “Who do you blame for Yahoo...

7. www.npr.org › 2021/04/11 › 986203233How Yahoo! Answers Shaped The Internet : NPR

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   Apr 11, 2021 · April 11, 20218:00 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. 3-Minute Listen. Playlist. Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in May. From sex education to homework help, users of the forum remember...