Will Yahoo survive as a search engine and mail ?
This is very likely going to be the last question that I am going to ask, but in just less than 2 days, Yahoo Answers will become a read only thread, and then on May 4th at who knows what time, it will be shutdown entirely. So can Yahoo survive as search engine and mail only, since Yahoo shutdown Yahoo Groups last December. So how long do you think it will be, before you get rid of your Yahoo account, will you wait until at least May 4th, so you can see what will be seen if anything in place of Yahoo Answers, or just be a blank white page, or will be a message that will say that Yahoo Answers no longer exists.
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Probably not as yahoo answers was the whole purpose of the site in my opinion.
For now Yes Search Engine and Email is not going anywhere
Answers is only a small part of yahoo which is now a small part of verizon. In the last few years it's had few active users and not the demographic yahoo were hoping for. It's closing because it's not making them money. It's as simple as that. I'm surprised that the search engine is still going as it's so rubbish. Even bing is better and that's saying something. I think the mail will be around for a while yet. Lately they've been genuinely trying to modernise it in a usable way so I think that they'll try to relaunch it in some form or other. @yahoo.whatever may become a legacy address. Still, I'd advise anyone who doesn't have a back up email address with another provider to make one asap. It's not just for big disasters like being discontinued, what would you do if your only email went down for a few days due to a cyber attack? It's good to have options.
Yes. Even with the closure of Answers in just a little more than two weeks, this won't impact the rest of Yahoo's other services you normally use. It's no different from Groups' closure last December and the shuttering of Messenger almost three years ago and all users' Yahoo accounts weren't impacted in either situation.
i heard they were going to keep yahoo open
Yeah, I know that ya is closing and I'm not a fortune teller. It doesn't matter to me anyway. You all are too invested in Yahoo, for some reason.
They are a news source as well, they have many irons in the fire, and Answers was a financial burden.
i heard they were keeping yahoo, just not yahoo answers