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1. 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 · 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 Answers website will...

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 · Tech. How Yahoo Answers went from a meme-making Q&A site to total collapse. After 16 years, the site that answered ‘how is babby formed’ will be closed down for good. Adam Smith. Tuesday 13...

3. 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 just the latest casualty. Yahoo Answers is shutting down after 15 years of offering earnest, harebrained questions and answers that led to memes that’ll last long...

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4. 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...

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. abcnews.go.com › Technology › day-yahoo-answersLast day for Yahoo Answers users to post questions, comments

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   Apr 20, 2021 · 1:23. National headlines from ABC News. Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. Get your final questions ready, because Tuesday marks the last day users can post on Yahoo Answers. First created in 2005, Yahoo Answers is a message board for people to post questions that could then be answered by anyone on the internet willing to help.

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   What is Yahoo Answers?

   • We launched Yahoo Answers sixteen years ago to help people around the world connect and share information. With you and millions of other users, we built the best place on the web to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics, creating a community of global knowledge sharing.

   Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th - The Verge

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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?

   • Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon Media Group following the company’s sale to the telecom for nearly $5 billion in 2017, announced the change at the top of the Yahoo Answers homepage. The message links to an FAQ, which details the timeline of the shutdown. Starting April 20th, the platform will no longer accept new submissions, the FAQ explains.

   Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th - The Verge

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

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   May 4, 2021 · May 4, 2021 1:36 p.m. PT. 4 min read. Angela Lang/CNET. It's over. On May 4, Yahoo Answers went offline, putting an end to one of the weirdest, oldest and least organized communities of...