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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.
by AznHisoka 11y ago
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.
- vram22 11y agoSimilar experience, the few times I have used it, sadly.
- Scoundreller 11y agoIt's free content, and they can sell ads on it. Personally, I'd love to own it.
- Scoundreller 11y agoAnd 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.
- sanarothe 11y agoFun fact: practically every assigned problem in undergrad chemistry, physics and math is solved on yahoo answers.
- anpk 11y agoMy dad loves solving the physics problems on yahoo answers.
- throwawayukcyb 11y agoI 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.
- ascorbic 11y agoDon't forget biology: "How is babby formed?"
- lostcolony 11y agoNo, that needs to stay. Just so My Brother, My Brother and Me can continue answering them.
- calebegg 11y agoI 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%3Aanswers.yahoo.com https://www.google.com/search?&q=what+is+3+lbs+in+kg+site%3A...
- chatmasta 11y agoYour problem is with Google, not Yahoo...
- nandemo 11y agoIncidentally, Yahoo Japan's version of Answers is quite useful and mostly troll-free.
- Pxtl 11y agoSeriously, it's worse than the content farms they booted.
- guelo 11y agoI've gotten useful info out of it.
- lotso 11y agoI've definitely found Yahoo Answers often useful. I'd argue Yahoo Answers is probably more helpful for the average person than Quora.
- atrudeau 11y agoBlast Yahoo Answers back to hell by installing a Chrome extension called Google Search Filter: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filter/eidhkmnbiahhgbgpjpiimdogfidfikgf?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt... Add Experts-Exchange to the blacklist while you're at it.
- johnmaguire2013 11y agoThanks for this! Firefox alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-unwanted-results-of-go/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-unwanted...
- atrudeau 11y agoAh, 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.
- douche 11y agoI 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.