Yahoo Answers to Shut Down
Permanently in May.
The question-and-answer feature will
be removed on April 20, and the site’s
entire archives will be wiped on May 4.
Yahoo told its users in a letter that it “decided to shift
our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus
on products that better serve our members.”.
The move comes after the service began
losing popularity over the years to
competitor sites like Quora and Reddit.
Though the company itself won’t be archiving any
of its 16 years worth of questions and answers,
users have been cataloging their favorites.
The service produced many viral
Q&A threads, but most famously it
birthed the meme-worthy question:
“How is babby formed?”