Yahoo Answers to Shut Down <br />Permanently in May.<br />The question-and-answer feature will <br />be removed on April 20, and the site’s <br />entire archives will be wiped on May 4.<br />Yahoo told its users in a letter that it “decided to shift <br />our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus <br />on products that better serve our members.”.<br />The move comes after the service began <br />losing popularity over the years to <br />competitor sites like Quora and Reddit.<br />Though the company itself won’t be archiving any <br />of its 16 years worth of questions and answers,<br />users have been cataloging their favorites.<br />The service produced many viral <br />Q&A threads, but most famously it <br />birthed the meme-worthy question: <br />“How is babby formed?”
