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

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Yahoo Answers is shutting down after 15 years of offering earnest, harebrained questions and answers that led to memes that’ll last long beyond its time.

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2. 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 says that Answers was “the best place on the web to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics”, but web users might better remember it for its litany of niche, weird,...

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

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   Apr 6, 2021 · People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said.

4. news.sky.com › story › yahoo-answers-is-shuttingYahoo Answers is shutting down - here are 10 of the best ...

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   • do you think humans will ever walk on the sun? It is actually hypothetically possible to walk on the sun - as long as we defined what the surface was - but it would be a brief walk.
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   • Is throwing your hair in the garbage safe? The user continued: "I wanted to be sure because in biology we learned that it had DNA and stuff so is it safe?"
   • What if the girl that thinks i'm the dad isn't the mom? This is frightening on a number of levels.

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

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   Apr 9, 2021 · Beginning April 20, people won’t be able to post any more questions or answers. Then on May 4, Yahoo Answers will be rendered completely extinct.

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

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   May 4, 2021 · A large portion of Yahoo Answers' publicly available questions are already backed up, and the team has made archiving the rest their "warrior project" focus for spring 2021.

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   Is Yahoo Answers a good place to ask questions?

   • Yahoo says that Answers was “the best place on the web to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics”, but web users might better remember it for its litany of niche, weird, often-misspelled questions. As a place for information, Yahoo Answers was subpar.

   How Yahoo Answers went from Q&A site to total collapse

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   Is Yahoo Answers the biggest online question & answering service?

   • Chirag Shah, a professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Washington thinks that, by 2008, Yahoo Answers was not only the biggest online question and answering service, but actually the biggest website on the internet. That’s the year Shah began to study the site in an attempt to understand people’s motivation for using it.

   How can this be the end of Yahoo Answers? - Slate Magazine

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   What happened to Yahoo Answers?

   • Until 20 April, nobody will be able to post any questions or provide any answers; by 4 May, the site will be shut down entirely. Yahoo says that Answers was “the best place on the web to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics”, but web users might better remember it for its litany of niche, weird, often-misspelled questions.

   How Yahoo Answers went from Q&A site to total collapse

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   Why do people use Yahoo Answers?

   • People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said. At times on Yahoo Answers, the people asking questions of strangers lunged for the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity: What would a heaven for elephants be like?

   Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down

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8. www.lifewire.com › how-yahoo-answers-shaped-theHow Yahoo Answers Shaped the Way We Use the Internet - Lifewire

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   Apr 9, 2021 · Yahoo Answers is shutting down after 15 years, but during it's day, it was the go-to place to ask questions about anything, and experts say it impacted how the internet is today.