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Anonymous asked in TravelAustraliaGeneral - Australia · 2 days ago

Are we being dropped from Yahoo because we can't generate the kind of money from advertising that they can from search engine royalties?

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  • Anonymous
    23 hours ago

    Too many Grubbies using it as a chat facility. 

  • 1 day ago

    the Chinese are not making any money out of it 

  • Anonymous
    1 day ago

    no idea, is disappointing regardless

  • Zirp
    Lv 4
    1 day ago

    what are "search engine royalties"?

    It's simply a matter of lacking revenue, and VERIZON being unwilling to improve things - so they decided to simply shut down the whole answers-thing

    Depending on which languages you use, there are several alternatives

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 day ago

    I think it has more to do with the trolls, and the campaigns to spread misinformation on subjects like COVID vaccination. Lots of social media companies are trying to take actions to eliminate that. 

  • 1 day ago

    no idea, is disappointing regardless

  • arther
    Lv 5
    1 day ago

    plenty of our opinions are embarrassing to the Verizon they have no guts just another bunch of sell out corpos they wouldn't make much from advertising on answers.

  • Aussie
    Lv 4
    1 day ago

    No it's the whole website going next month.

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