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Yahoo Answers to Shut Down May 4, 2021

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 06 2021, @03:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the You've-got-questions?-We've-got-answers...-But-now-they're-hidden! dept.
[2022-01-04 21:42:10 UTC; Updated. Also see: https://www.chamberofcommerce.org/alternatives-to-yahoo-answers/ --martyb]

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 07 2021, @07:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 07 2021, @07:57PM (#1134419)

    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.

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