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Does Yahoo Answers still exist? ›

On April 5, 2021, Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Answers would be shutting down. On April 20, 2021, the website switched to read-only and users were no longer able to ask or answer questions. The site ceased operations on May 4, 2021. The URL now redirects to the Yahoo! homepage.

The best alternatives to Yahoo Answers Now are Whale, Quora, and CoFoundersLab. If these 3 options don't work for you, we've listed a few more alternatives below.

Will Yahoo Answers be archived? Yahoo Answers comes to a close on May 4 with no plans to provide an archive of the website's 16 years of content. “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.

Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web".

A "decline in popularity" is the main, most immediate reason for shutting down Yahoo Answers. If the site had continued the popularity it had in its early days, it's a safe bet it would still be around. Much of that decline was a direct result of the quality (or lack thereof) of the answers the site provided.

Previous questions and answers can be viewed on the site until May 4 when they will be redirected to the Yahoo homepage. Yahoo Answers users can request their old data to download, including previous questions and answers they've posted before a June 30 deadline.

How can I contact Yahoo to reset my security questions? Yahoo help indicates security questions are no longer used. They suggest setting up your email address and phone number. If you are locked out, they will send a code to your phone device, and an email to help unlock your account.

3. Yahoo! Its news-heavy page isn't the sleekest search engine interface, but Yahoo! is still one of the more popular alternatives to Google, with just over 1.16% of the worldwide market share. Yahoo! is powered by Microsoft Bing, so search results are similar.

Yahoo!, global Internet brand and services provider based in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Communications since 2017. It was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California. Yahoo!

Do Yahoo archived emails get deleted? ›

Archiving a message moves it to the Archive folder for safekeeping and you can restore it any time.

Retrieving an email from a Yahoo mail archiver is straightforward: Open the Archive folder. Select an email or multiple emails you want to unarchive. Clicking the Restore to Inbox button — in Yahoo Standard Version.

WikiHow. WikiHow is the go-to site for how-to content. The website, which started the same year as Yahoo! Answers, 2006, has a database of more than 5,000 question categories. Users can search through previously-asked questions, read helpful how-to articles, or ask their own questions.

Yahoo! announced on Sunday that Ross Levinsohn will temporarily replace chief executive Scott Thompson, who has stepped down in the face of controversy about his allegedly inflated resume.

The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories.

The Yahoo app is going away by the end of June 2023. Everything you love in the Yahoo app can still be accessed either through the Yahoo Mail app or the Yahoo News app. If you use email, download the Yahoo Mail app.

Some older email addresses used @ymail.com, and ymail.com still opens Yahoo Mail, but the company has moved away from the branding. Now, it's all about Yahoo Mail, and if you set up a new email account with Yahoo, you'll get an @yahoo.com email address. To clear two things up: it really is just Gmail, not Google Mail.

Yahoo! is powered by Microsoft Bing, so search results are similar. Its search results page has a minimalist, text-heavy interface. However, it's still an important search engine in its own right, with over 4 billion monthly users in 2023.