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The Atlantic Getty / The Atlantic Yahoo Answers is not what most people would call a good source of information. On Monday morning, the top questions on its homepage, as decided by its users, included whether the Democratic Party would eventually initiate some kind of genocide, whether Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were really in love, why small dogs were “the most aggressive seeming,” and “What’s the last thing that entered your nose by mistake?” Still, when Yahoo made the unceremon...

Yahoo Answers, a haven for the confused, is shutting down 7 Apr, 2021 09:54 PM 7 minutes to read Yahoo will be shutting down the question-and-answer service and deleting its archives on May 4. Photo / 123RF Yahoo will be shutting down the question-and-answer service and deleting its archives on May 4. Photo / 123RF New York Times By: Daniel Victor People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered "real human reaction, for better or for worse," o...

Yahoo Answers, where confused people quenched their thirst for knowledge, is shutting down on May 4 Agencies Questions and answers will be halted on April 20, and will be wiped off the internet on May 4. Related What would a heaven for elephants be like? Should scientists give octopi bones? It helped people identify their sense of self: Why do people with baguettes think they are better than me? Is being popular in high school a good skill I can use in a job interview? It sought explanations f...

After more than 15 years on the internet, Yahoo! Answers is shutting down next month.  Users will no longer be able to post new content on Yahoo! Answers starting on April 20. Then on May 4, the site will officially go offline.  “While Yahoo Answers was once a key part of Yahoo’s products and services, it has become less popular over the years as the needs of our members have changed,” Yahoo said in an email sent to users on Monday.    Indeed, other question-and-answer platforms such...

Tombstonebuilder Yahoo Answers will be shutting down forever, per an announcement on its site, as first reported by the Verge. Final questions can be submitted until April 20, and the entire site will be scorched from the face of the internet by May 4, 2021, thus ending the 16-year reign of one of the dumbest places on the internet. What Yahoo Answers lacked in contributions to the pantheon of world knowledge it made up for in its heroic advances in memeably ridiculous content. BuzzFeed has r...

Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered “real human reaction, for better or for worse,” one longtime observer said. April 6, 2021Updated 2:05 p.m. ET At times on Yahoo Answers, the people asking questions of strangers lunged for the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity: What would a heaven for elephants be like? Should scientists give octopi bones? It helped people ident...

SOPHIE, your music helped me to find a kind of sanctuary. Thank you The acclaimed musician and LGBTQ+ icon tragically died at the weekend. Here, a fan eulogises an artist who was "revolutionary both in and out of music" Credit: Getty I’ll always remember how lucky I was to see SOPHIE perform. It was on a school night of my first year of university. My best friend’s orange hair glowed under the hazy Brooklyn sky with his hand in mine, the fingerless fishnet gloves scratching my palm as we ra...

SHARE Audio-based social app Clubhouse said today it has raised new funding from the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz to help the startup scale up by hiring more people and investing in creators. The amount of the Series B round for the company, formally named Alpha Exploration Co., was not disclosed, though a source told Axios it was about $100 million. The Information reported Friday that Clubhouse had been in discussions before the round on a valuation of $1 billion but exactly how much it...

Big Tech’s Purge is Only Beginning… For Them There’s nothing easy about living through a political coup. The Big Tech firms long in cahoots with our government have been pushing a false narrative of evil MAGA-Nazis trying to undermine polite society for more than four years now. Suppression started with Milo Yiannopoulos, accelerated to include Alex Jones and InfoWars and reach a temporary peak in 2018 with the persecution of alternative social media platform Gab in the wake of the Pittsb...