Yahoo Answers the next one will close its doors May 4, 2021. After more than fifteen years of honorable service, the longest running question and answer platform on the Net is doomed. News that certainly won't make the thousands of users who have been using this service happy since 2005. But the statistics have given no other chance to Yahoo, which has thus decided to implement a plan to close the platform, which can guarantee you not to lose any of the published content. Let's see what it is.
Yahoo Answers, the platform will close on May 4th
We're pretty sure everyone has used Yahoo Answers at least once in their life. After all, there is no other platform on the Net that is able to answer our questions. Unfortunately, however, this Yahoo service will no longer exist in the next few months, and it will close as early as the next one. 20 April. In fact, starting from this date, the platform will no longer accept any proposals from users. And this is only the first phase of closing the service.
Yahoo Answers will close permanently on May 4th, but until June 30th you will have the option to download a content archive posted on Yahoo Answers - assuming you have -. From that moment on, however, the platform will no longer exist and users will be automatically redirected to the Yahoo Home Page. A dignified end, so to speak. On the other hand, the company had no other choice, especially considering the statistics of use of the service sharply declining. For its part, Google it has undoubtedly helped to divert users to other services, and the result was certainly not the happiest for the platform.
“While Yahoo Answers was once a core part of Yahoo's products and services, over the years it has become less popular as our members' needs have changed. To that end, we have decided to shift our resources from Yahoo Answers to focus on products that best serve our members and deliver on Yahoo's promise of delivering high quality content. " With this message, the company greets one of the longest-running services on the Net.
Why does Yahoo close the Answers service?
"Who do you blame for the closure of Yahoo Answers?": So reads one of the latest questions published on the platform after the announcement of its definitive suspension. A question that received, in a very short time, more than 250 responses. Apparently, users blame everyone for the demise of the Internet giant: the liberals, the conservatives and even Verizon, the parent company of Yahoo's portals.
“[Probably] doesn't make a profit… instead of spending the money needed to moderate, they decided to shut the whole thing down,” replies Bill, a user who has written 11182 responses throughout his presence on the platform. But, in reality, it is not clear to anyone why Answers will be closed. Especially considering the company it will not interrupt any of the other services: Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Mail will continue to function as if nothing had happened. But the question-and-answer service has become "less popular over the years", and this seems to be enough to decree its end.
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But there is also another thing to say. Like many other platforms on the Net - social media, above all - Yahoo Answers has also turned into a virtual place where the political debate it gets more and more heated. But we know well that the service was born with a completely different intention, namely that of providing users with a place where they can receive answers to the simplest questions of everyday life and not. Questions like "How does it feel to be 50?", And comments like "I'm 17, I can't even imagine what it feels like to have been on planet Earth for so long". This is Yahoo Answers, and so we want to remember it despite everything.
The best of Yahoo Answers - here's what we'll remember
A few weeks after the closure of the most well-known question and answer service on the Net, we try to retrace its history through some of the more fun and embarrassing content ever. Let's face it, Americans manage to outdo us even in this. Some questions like "Does my laptop get heavier if I load more files?" or "How are children formed?" have remained in the history of the American platform. But the Italian version of Answers also gave us some truly remarkable content.
"Who was martinlutero?" is certainly one of the questions that will remain in history. As well as that of the student Leonardo, who diligently asks for a summary of the Second World War. The answer? A series of onomatopoeic words that give the idea of shooting, chaos and who knows what else. But we are also sure that someone has voluntarily used the platform to ask nonsense questions.
Stefano BS, for example, asked “How do I become a Velociraptor?“. And the answer could not be outdone. “You have to do 3 back flips while holding a pistachio ice cream in your hand (not in the cup, otherwise it won't work). If you can, watch the Jurassic Park movie, everything “. But Yahoo Answers isn't just the platform where hundreds of ironic and funny questions have been concentrated. Someone also asked what the "use in plane" mode on the iPhone means, or they wondered about the very purpose of the service. And the response from users was sincere and real.
“I believe that most people don't realize the irreversible loss that this brings about. It is a huge archive of questions and answers, and therefore also of suggestions for carrying out the exercises. An ocean of experiences, stratified over the years. It really would be necessary for someone to buy it and save it ”. And this is how we want to greet Answers, the question and answer service that made us laugh, but also made us think.
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