Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Why is Yahoo! shutting down Yahoo! answers?

Plenty of people are still using the website to get helpful information and answer tough questions.  Why does Yahoo! want to get rid of that? Where else should I go for this?

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  • Daniel
    Lv 7
    4 hours ago

    Yahoo Answers has not been doing well Lately a lot of Users have Left Poor Maintenance of the

    Site they have not Fixed a lot of the Problems they are Likely Losing Money on it as well so

    They feel its Best to Close it Down If there not going to Fix it they minus as well Close it

    Down

  • 15 hours ago

    Yahoo is my favorite place 

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