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Yahoo Answers Showed Us Exactly How Not to Search For Advice Online

When Yahoo Answers, one of the internet’s last bastions of unfiltered, crowdsourced advice, is shut down on May 4, the site will not be archived. The digital equivalent of the Library of Alexandria for bizarre questions will burn, and it will be a great loss for the internet. The site’s emergence 16 years ago came with promise, born from a belief that community could provide answers to users’ mo