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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by TedDoesntTalk on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:48PM (#26705125)
I can't answer that for today. But there was a time when they had a very active shopping site -- they were an earlier version of Amazon for 3rd-party merchants, Shopify or Etsy where anyone could open a "store". And Yahoo handled payments, as I recall, just like Amazon does now. I bought many things from there.

Where is that today? Gone, I guess. But it could have been an Amazon or Shopify.

They also had a lucrative ad business. Gone now, I think.

Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by Stratoscope on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:15PM (#26706892)
And bringing this full circle, I wonder if you may be referring to Viaweb?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb