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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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     Yahoo! Answers went live in 2005. In theory, it should have...

2. 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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3. 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.

4. 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 Answers, the infamous question-and-answer site started in 2005, is finally being closed down. “While Yahoo Answers war once a key part of Yahoo’s products and services, it...

5. 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...

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Yahoo!_AnswersYahoo! Answers - Wikipedia

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   December 8, 2005; 18 years ago. ( 2005-12-08) Current status. Offline. Yahoo! Answers was a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) website or knowledge market owned by Yahoo! where users would ask questions and answer those submitted by others, and upvote them to increase their visibility.

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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?

   • What Yahoo Answers was supposed to be, what it became, and what remains. It's over. On May 4, Yahoo Answers went offline, putting an end to one of the weirdest, oldest and least organized communities of crowdsourced questions and answers.

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

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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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   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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