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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. 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 ...

4. www.lifewire.com › how-yahoo-answers-shaped-theHow Yahoo Answers Shaped the Way We Use the Internet - Lifewire

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   Apr 9, 2021 · In its heyday, Yahoo Answers helped connect strangers, provide answers to questions we all have, and gave us some laughs. At its worst, experts say it led to misinformation and bullying. After 15 years of providing the internet with endless humor and the answers to our burning questions, Yahoo Answers will shut down on May 4. Long before Reddit ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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...

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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?

   • “Yahoo Answers was a place for people to put questions they were too embarrassed to ask the people they knew in real life,” said Justin McElroy, a co-host of the comedy podcast “My Brother, My Brother and Me,” which has featured questions from the service since 2010.

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

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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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8. 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 · Apr 5, 2021, 12:25 PM PDT. 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...