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1. 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.

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

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   May 4, 2021 · 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 crowdsourced questions and...

3. www.reddit.com › r › NoStupidQuestionsDoes anyone else miss yahoo answers? : r ... - Reddit

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   Yahoo answers and yahoo groups, I miss both. Quora is a thing but you have to send requests to specific people to look at your question or you won't get answers. Also, Quora is confusing. I see a bunch of weird pictures and articles when I open that site.

4. slate.com › technology › 2021How can this be the end of Yahoo Answers? - Slate Magazine

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   Apr 9, 2021 · This week, Yahoo Answers announced that it is shutting down its operations. Beginning April 20, people won’t be able to post any more questions or answers. Then on May 4, Yahoo Answers will be ...

5. www.nytimes.com › yahoo-answers-shutting-downYahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down. People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for...

6. www.theverge.com › 2021/4/6 › 22370034Yahoo Answers was the most earnest place on the internet

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   Apr 6, 2021 · On May 4th, Yahoo Answers will enter a permanent read-only mode and functionally cease to exist. We may never know how babby is formed. A public good mutated into yet another exhausting ...

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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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   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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   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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   When did Yahoo Answers go live?

   • During the early 2000s, a lot of people thought the “wisdom of the crowds” would guide people to new knowledge. Yahoo! Answers went live in 2005. In theory, it should have been the biggest, most important site on the internet.

   The best of Yahoo! Answers - The Verge

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8. 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 · Tuesday 13 April 2021 16:25 BST. Comments. (REUTERS) Yahoo Answers, the infamous question-and-answer site started in 2005, is finally being closed down. “While Yahoo Answers war once a key part ...