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

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   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.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...

4. 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...

5. 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 beyond...

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6. 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 · Key Takeaways. Yahoo Answers is shutting down after 15 years. 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.

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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?

   • We launched Yahoo Answers sixteen years ago to help people around the world connect and share information. With you and millions of other users, we built the best place on the web to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics, creating a community of global knowledge sharing.

   Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th - The Verge

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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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   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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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.