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The end of Yahoo Answers and the cyber-seeker in you

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May 11, 2021
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Solomon J. Solomon, Echo and Narcissus, 1895

We lost Yahoo* Answers last week, out with a whimper and a few casually disdainful think pieces. It didn’t feel like much of a loss, or much of anything: Yahoo peaked fifteen years ago, and making fun of Yahoo peaked five years after that. Personally, Yahoo has breached my consciousness only once in the past f…

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