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How long has Yahoo Answers been around?
Yahoo! Answers
| Type of site | Collaboration |
|---|---|
| URL | answers.yahoo.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | December 8, 2005 |
| Current status | Offline |
Why is Yahoo Answers going away?
We decided to shift our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus on products that better serve our members and deliver on Yahoo’s promise of providing premium trusted content. As of May 4, 2021 you can no longer access the site.
What happened to Yahoo Answers?
The end of a long and storied internet era (of bad questions and even worse answers) 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.
Why is Yahoo Answers shutting down?
A note sent to active Yahoo Answers members provides a little more detail as to why Yahoo is shutting down the platform, including that “it has become less popular over the years” and that the company “decided to shift our resources away” from the product to “focus on products that better serve our members.”
What is Yahoo Answers used for?
We launched Yahoo Answers sixteen years ago to help people around the world connect and share information. With you and millions of other users, we built the best place on the web to ask and answer questions on a variety of topics, creating a community of global knowledge sharing.
How long do you have to request your data from Yahoo?
Users will also have until June 30th to request their data or it’ll be inaccessible after that. That includes “all user-generated content including your Questions list, Questions, Answers list, Answers, and any images,” Yahoo says, but “you won’t be able to download other users’ content, questions, or answers.”