Yahoo Answers to shut permanently on May 4th

Yahoo Answers confirms the news of its shutdown by sending out a note to its members. Founded in 2005, its main purpose was to answer the questions uploaded but it turned out to be a source for memes because of its poor worded questions and due to the rise of Reddit, Quora and other competing internet retreat.

Even though it will shut down on 4^th of May but its members will have access to their data i.e. the questions uploaded, but only up till 30^th of June. April 20^th onwards the site will no longer allow its users to upload any new question, hence it will remain as “read-only” site.

Yahoo Answer’s note read that they are proud to be in business for 16years. They sensed that their user’s needs were changed so they decided to end the platform which used to be one of Yahoo’s key products.

According to Alexa, site has ranked the world’s 11^th most popular website in terms of global engagement while the same ranking site placed Quora at 374^th position but maybe its shutdown is for good because of its homepage highlighting controversial questions regarding BLM protest and President Biden.

May its users find an alternative source for all their answers as the longest running Q&A platform will cease to exist May 4^th onwards.