Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals

Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by AznHisoka on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:20PM (#11121950)

What about Yahoo Answers? I hate seeing their results show up in the top 3 when I do a Google search. They're always low quality and not useful.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by sanarothe on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:33PM (#11122461)

Fun fact: practically every assigned problem in undergrad chemistry, physics and math is solved on yahoo answers.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by anpk on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:45PM (#11122821)

My dad loves solving the physics problems on yahoo answers.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by abrkn on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:16PM (#11123212)

I'd love to see an example

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by anpk on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:34PM (#11130597)

I dont know what id he uses. I'll ask next time.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by ascorbic on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:45AM (#11124681)

Don't forget biology: "How is babby formed?"

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by throwawayukcyb on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:10PM (#11123411)

I can't speak for chemistry or physics, but that must be an incredibly poor mathematics program? I can't remember seeing anything past calc on yahoo answers and those answers were almost always wrong, or correct but with wrong explanations.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by calebegg on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:05PM (#11123166)

I love how Yahoo Answers is basically a crowd-sourced unit conversion engine that makes lots of mistakes. I notice it show up a lot below the Google-supplied unit conversion I'm actually seeking.

Example: https://www.google.com/search?&q=what+is+3+lbs+in+kg+site%3A...

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by atrudeau on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @11:35PM (#11123752)

Blast Yahoo Answers back to hell by installing a Chrome extension called Google Search Filter: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...

Add Experts-Exchange to the blacklist while you're at it.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by johnmaguire2013 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:25AM (#11124047)

Thanks for this! Firefox alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-unwanted...

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by atrudeau on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:56AM (#11125375)

Ah, nice! Only downside is that it doesn't support highlighting certain results. For example, Google Search Filter highlights Wikipedia and StackExchange results for, while removing cruft like Yahoo Answers.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by douche on Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:21AM (#11125504)

I think Google has done a pretty good job at blacklisting Expert-sExchange. I don't remember the last time they turned up in my search results.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by lostcolony on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:55PM (#11122582)

No, that needs to stay. Just so My Brother, My Brother and Me can continue answering them.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by nandemo on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:47PM (#11123314)

Incidentally, Yahoo Japan's version of Answers is quite useful and mostly troll-free.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by Scoundreller on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:11PM (#11122323)

It's free content, and they can sell ads on it. Personally, I'd love to own it.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by Scoundreller on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:09PM (#11123407)

And to add to that, I think Yahoo's biggest mistake with Answers, and a lot of their other properties, was to put them on subdomains.

Their value would be a lot higher if they could seamlessly transfer ownership of the property. Rebranding costs users.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by lotso on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:07PM (#11123402)

I've definitely found Yahoo Answers often useful. I'd argue Yahoo Answers is probably more helpful for the average person than Quora.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by guelo on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:04PM (#11123384)

I've gotten useful info out of it.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by Pxtl on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:01PM (#11123373)

Seriously, it's worse than the content farms they booted.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by vram22 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:56PM (#11122231)

Similar experience, the few times I have used it, sadly.

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Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals by chatmasta on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:22PM (#11123228)

Your problem is with Google, not Yahoo...

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