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Finally! Although search engines have finally deranked Yahoo Answers, I still resent it for all the years when I would look up something and the top results alw
by ravenstine 6y ago
Finally! Although search engines have finally deranked Yahoo Answers, I still resent it for all the years when I would look up something and the top results always included a Yahoo Answer written by a 12 year old. It's pretty much a warehouse of misinformation to such a degree that it makes Quora look like Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of credibility.
- DC-3 6y agoHey! My brother used to write answers to maths questions on Yahoo Answers when he was 12 and they were quite good, I think :-)
- umvi 6y ago> still resent it for all the years when I would look up something and the top results always included a Yahoo Answer written by a 12 year old Reminds me of the famous(ish) meme that came from Yahoo Answers: https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY
- simias 6y agoI'm partial to this one myself: https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg
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- pmiller2 6y agoAt least you could actually read the answers, unlike, say, expertsexchange.com
- markdown 6y ago> it makes Quora look like Encyclopedia Britannica in terms of credibility. Have you looked recently? Quora is mostly online marketers. Only marginally better than 12yr olds.
- duskwuff 6y agoThat's the point. The content on Yahoo Answers is so bad that it makes Quora look relatively authoritative by contrast.
- m463 6y agoreminds me of the "ask a..." from the onion. for example: https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-navy-seal-1819583375 https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-navy-seal-1819583375 or a more pertinent one: https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-high-school-student-who-didnt-do-the-required-rea-1819583863 https://www.theonion.com/ask-a-high-school-student-who-didnt...