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1. 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...

2. www.usatoday.com › story › techYahoo Answers, the venerable Q&A sites on the internet, faces ...

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   Apr 5, 2021 · USA TODAY. 0:03. 0:31. Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running question-and-answer sites on the internet, is shutting down after 16 years. The site will shutter on May 4, according to a...

3. 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...

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

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   Apr 6, 2021 · Advertisement. 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...

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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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   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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   When will Yahoo's questions & answers be wiped off the Internet?

   • Questions and answers will be halted on April 20, and will be wiped off the internet on May 4. It’s not the first time Yahoo and other tech companies have killed off once-popular products without the benefit of archiving; 20 years of content posted to Yahoo Groups was deleted in 2019, the same year Flickr deleted 15 years of photos.

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

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   When will my Yahoo Answers data be deleted?

   • You will be able to do this until June 30th, 2021 after which your Yahoo Answers data will be securely deleted and no longer available. The closure of Yahoo Answers will not affect your Yahoo account or other Yahoo services.

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

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6. www.npr.org › 2021/04/11 › 986203233How Yahoo! Answers Shaped The Internet : NPR

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   Apr 11, 2021 · Yahoo! Answers is shutting down in May. From sex education to homework help, users of the forum remember how it shaped early Internet culture. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: An online corner for...

7. 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.