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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.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.

   • Author: Ailsa Chang

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

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   Apr 6, 2021 · By Daniel Victor. Published April 6, 2021 Updated April 7, 2021. At times on Yahoo Answers, the people asking questions of strangers lunged for the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity:...

5. 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.

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

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   Apr 5, 2021 · USA TODAY. 0:07. 0:58. 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...