According to a statement on its website, Yahoo Answers will cease operations. Final questions can be submitted until April 20, and by May 4, 2021, the site will be completely shut down, after 16 years.
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Yahoo Answers content was often pointless and the site itself was considered by many to be redundant.
Yahoo Answers, which Verizon has owned since 2017, was many things in one. It was a place where anyone could ask questions about anything, but most of them were pretty silly. It was a clever SEO ploy, but also a semi-developed social media outlet where users could spend their free time answering questions and giving advice.
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Yahoo has a long history of closing down huge chunks of itself in an effort to stay relevant and cut costs. In 2009, Yahoo shut down Geocities, one of the largest repositories of Y2K-era internet culture. Del.ic.ious was sold in 2011, and Flickr suffered the same fate in 2018. Yahoo Messenger was shut down in 2018. At the end of 2019, Yahoo Groups also said goodbye.
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Verizon bought AOL in 2015 and Yahoo in 2017, merging them together into a new content company called Oath, along with Tumblr and Huffington Post. Tumblr was sold to Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, in 2019, and HuffPost was sold to BuzzFeed about 2 months ago.
The fact that a large part of the Internet is deleted is of course nothing new, and the feeling it evokes in those who use it is not so intense.
