Yahoo Answer will stop working permanently

Yahoo Answer, one of the oldest Q&A platforms in the history of the Internet, will be shut down permanently as of May 4, 2021. Yahoo Answer has been in operation since 2005.

Yahoo Answer said that from April 20 users will not be able to post any questions or submit new answers on the platform. However, users will still be able to access their data and question and answer list as of June 30, but 'cannot load content, question or answer' of the user. other. After the above time, the user will be permanently unable to access this website.

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In the letter to users, Yahoo Answer said the reason for the shutdown is because the platform 'has become less popular over the years' and the company decided to shift resources to focus on other services, in order to serve customers better.

The absence of Yahoo Answer will not affect the user's Yahoo account or other Yahoo services.

According to Verge, the shutdown of Yahoo Answer is probably a good thing, as the site doesn't seem to be the same quality as before, with uncensored discussions and supposedly 'bullshit', besides appear many junk ads.

After many years of operation, Yahoo Answers has become the second-ranked knowledge search service, after Wikipedia. In 2017, Yahoo sold the business to Verizon in the US for $ 5 billion.

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