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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...

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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 · 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 › 2021/4/5 › 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...

4. 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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   • Author: Michael Dobuski

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. 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.

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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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   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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   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...