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According to a headline on the answers.yahoo.com web page, Yahoo Answers is shutting down .
Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Yahoo provided additional details at https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html including:
What's the timeline for this process?
- April 20th - You won't be able to post new Yahoo Answers questions or answer other users' questions.
- May 4th - The website won't be accessible. If you try to access Yahoo Answers on May 4th you'll be redirected to the Yahoo homepage.
[Ed Note - Have any of my fellow soylentils used Yahoo Answers, and if so was it helpful?]
Additional Coverage:
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/yahoo-answers-will-be-shut-down-forever-on-may-4th/ar-BB1fkigF
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/yahoo-answers-shut-down-date-1151453/
- https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-answers-is-finally-being-shut-down/
- https://www.ign.com/articles/yahoo-answers-is-shutting-down-permanently-on-may-4th
- https://mashable.com/article/yahoo-answers-shutting-down/
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/yahoo-answers-to-shut-down-on-may-4th
(Score: 4, Insightful) by looorg on Tuesday April 06 2021, @04:17PM (6 children)
I have to admit that I'm constantly surprised, I know I shouldn't be by now, that Yahoo is even still around. It's like one of the celebs you just know is dead but then turns out that they are still alive.
Can't say I used Yahoo-answer. That said I'm sure it has shown up in a search sometime and I used it without sort of knowing or thinking about it.
So what is still around of the Yahoo-empire? The search has got to be dead right? Who in their right mind would use that anymore. The start page as some sort of news and clickbait aggregator? I guess the mail is still around? Even tho I think I see less and less of them as public addresses when you see lists of them. What else is there? Or is Yahoo now more or less just a brand name that owns a lot of copyrighted things?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @04:22PM (1 child)
This. Especially in Japan.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @11:56PM
Yes, "Yahoo! Japan" is a separate company from the US Yahoo, and they're still doing well. Similar to how Tower Records is still going in Japan, since they split off from the US Tower Records completely, well before the US Tower Records went bankrupt.
Which just goes to show, that if your Japanese branch or joint-company goes solo from your main company, sell your main company while it's still worth something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 06 2021, @04:45PM
>> So what is still around of the Yahoo-empire?
Marissa Mayer's pension.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DBCubix on Tuesday April 06 2021, @08:28PM (1 child)
1998 Yahoo had the opportunity but refused to buy Google for $1M
2006 Yahoo had the opportunity but refused to buy Facebook for $1B
2007 Yahoo Auctions got shutdown after selling Nazi Memorabilia in France
2008 Yahoo refused to sell to Microsoft for $44B
2009 Yahoo replaced its search engine with Microsoft Bing
Then there was Marissa Mayer...
They make bad decisions. Not sure what else there is?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 07 2021, @07:57PM
I get your point, but if Yahoo had bought Google or Facebook, would they have been as successful as they proved to be? I could imagine yes, or I could imagine that Yahoo's management completely botches things. It's easy to imagine Yahoo search meddling with Google and not giving it the space it needed to thrive, and the Facebook/Myspace fight was so strong that anything could have tipped the balance the other way.
As for not selling to Microsoft... well, harder to judge that one. Still, if Microsoft had managed to turn it around, people could laugh at them for showing bad judgement for selling for such a low price.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by TheRaven on Wednesday April 07 2021, @10:40AM
sudo mod me up