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1. 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.

   • Author: Ailsa Chang

2. 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.

   • Author: Luke Winkie

3. answers.quantarchive.com › dir › indexAll Categories | Yahoo Answers

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   Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode.

4. 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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5. www.nytimes.com › 2021/04/06 › technologyYahoo 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.npr.org › 2021/04/11 › 986203233How Yahoo! Answers Shaped The Internet : NPR

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   Apr 11, 2021 · Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in May. From sex education to homework help, users of the forum remember how it shaped early Internet culture. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: An online corner for...

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   What happened to Yahoo Answers?

   • Au Revoir, Yahoo! Answers 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 CHANG, HOST: On this program, we ask a lot of big questions. But we're now going to pose a few that are, well, less substantial.

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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 is Yahoo Answers?

   • The premise of Yahoo Answers was simple: ask any question you want and receive solutions from anyone in the world.

   Yahoo Answers was the most earnest place on the internet

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   What happens to Yahoo Answers after May 4?

   • 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.

   Yahoo Answers is dead, but its weird and amusing legacy lives on

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   When will Yahoo's questions & answers be wiped off the Internet?

   • Questions and answers will be halted on April 20, and will be wiped off the internet on May 4. It’s not the first time Yahoo and other tech companies have killed off once-popular products without the benefit of archiving; 20 years of content posted to Yahoo Groups was deleted in 2019, the same year Flickr deleted 15 years of photos.

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

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   Why is Yahoo Answers so popular?

   • Yahoo Answers was never really about the answers, which could be why the service was best known for the questions its users asked. Regardless of what Yahoo Answers was designed to be, it's best known for the surprising and ridiculous questions people asked it.

   Yahoo Answers is dead, but its weird and amusing legacy lives on

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8. 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.