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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 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...

   • Author: Luke Winkie

2. 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.

3. 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 · After 16 years, the site that answered ‘how is babby formed’ will be closed down for good. Adam Smith. Tuesday 13 April 2021 16:25 BST. Comments. (REUTERS) Yahoo Answers, the infamous...

4. www.npr.org › 2021/05/04 › 993605484Au Revoir, Yahoo! Answers : NPR

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   May 4, 2021 · Yahoo! Answers shut down Tuesday after nearly 16 years of inquiries from the internet's curious minds. As a final send-off, NPR gets to the bottom of some of these important questions. AILSA...

   • Author: Ailsa Chang

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

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   • What Yahoo Answers Was Supposed to Be
   • What Yahoo Answers Became
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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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6. gizmodo.com › were-archiving-yahoo-answers-soYahoo Answers Archive: We're Saving Everything We Can - Gizmodo

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   Apr 9, 2021 · In fact, this is the second archive of Yahoo Answers they’ve kicked off, after first attempting to save these pages back in 2017. At the time of publication, we have about 5,500 questions tha t ...

7. www.theverge.com › 22368753 › yahoo-answers-bestThe best of Yahoo! Answers - The Verge

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   Apr 8, 2021 · Yahoo! Answers went live in 2005. In theory, it should have been the biggest, most important site on the internet. In practice, Yahoo! Answers will be shut down on May 4th, 2021.