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I think Yahoo Answers was highly indexed by Google in like 2010. But for years now, I've never seen a Yahoo Answers link in my search results. You have things

I think Yahoo Answers was highly indexed by Google in like 2010. But for years now, I've never seen a Yahoo Answers link in my search results. You have things like Reddit now highly indexed which has far less silly answers and questions through actually having moderation. I doubt its getting much traffic, and if it is, it's probably providing a bad look to the brand.

adolph 6y ago
A “bad look” to the “Yahoo!” brand? Their “brand look” has been value destruction for more than 15 years, hitting their stride early with 2005’s acqui-trashing of upcomly, del.icio.us and Flickr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...!
unreal37 6y ago
In fact, the Google Search team has made changes to their algorithm over the years SPECIFICALLY to reduce crowdsourced answers sites from appearing in search results. It's a conscious decision.
- max_hammer 6y ago
  Reddit / Quora / stackexchage are always top results in google search
  - LocalH 6y ago
    Reddit isn't really a "crowdsourced answer site" in the way that the latter two are, though
byset 6y ago
I do remember often being frustrated when mostly useless Yahoo Answers content would appear at the top of Google search results. I never understood why it was ranked so highly. YA seemed like what Quora would be like if you were required to flunk a literacy test in order to participate.
- jamiek88 6y ago
  And ironically quora answers now pollute google results and elicit similar eyerolls.
- rchaud 6y ago
  At least Yahoo! Answers entries were short. Quora is basically the Y!A of today, but with essay-length responses that don't still don't answer the question.
- hellomyguys 6y ago
  Have you looked at Quora any time in the past 6 years? The answers may be grammatically correct, but the content is not much better than Yahoo Answers, and at least Yahoo Answers was funny.

adolph 6y ago

A “bad look” to the “Yahoo!” brand? Their “brand look” has been value destruction for more than 15 years, hitting their stride early with 2005’s acqui-trashing of upcomly, del.icio.us and Flickr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...!

unreal37 6y ago

In fact, the Google Search team has made changes to their algorithm over the years SPECIFICALLY to reduce crowdsourced answers sites from appearing in search results. It's a conscious decision.

max_hammer 6y ago
Reddit / Quora / stackexchage are always top results in google search
- LocalH 6y ago
  Reddit isn't really a "crowdsourced answer site" in the way that the latter two are, though

byset 6y ago

I do remember often being frustrated when mostly useless Yahoo Answers content would appear at the top of Google search results. I never understood why it was ranked so highly. YA seemed like what Quora would be like if you were required to flunk a literacy test in order to participate.

jamiek88 6y ago
And ironically quora answers now pollute google results and elicit similar eyerolls.
rchaud 6y ago
At least Yahoo! Answers entries were short. Quora is basically the Y!A of today, but with essay-length responses that don't still don't answer the question.
hellomyguys 6y ago
Have you looked at Quora any time in the past 6 years? The answers may be grammatically correct, but the content is not much better than Yahoo Answers, and at least Yahoo Answers was funny.