The website owned by Verizon announced the platform on Monday with a brief statement on Yahoo Answers’ homepage. The portal will go into “read-only” mode on April 20 and avid users will have until June 30 to download content, Yahoo explained on the help page.
“Although Yahoo Answers was once an important 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 to Answers’ users. the Verge was obtained.
“To that end, we have decided to shift our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus on products that better serve our members and live up to Yahoo’s promise to deliver premium reliable content,” the email continued.
Like many corners of the Internet, Yahoo Answers has become an abyss of conspiracy theories and bizarre questions that have driven Yahoo’s brand name while trying to move upward. For example, one of the top questions on the site Tuesday morning asks, “Are Yahoo answers closed because conservatives have exposed the socialist takeover of America?”
Verizon (VZ) Yahoo bought $ 4.4 billion in 2017 and it now stands under the Verizon Media Group umbrella, which also includes Aol. Verizon recently announced plans to double the Yahoo name and create new subscription-based services with the name. Yahoo claims to have 20 million unique daily visitors.