Goodbye a classic: Yahoo! Responses will be closed forever on May 4

Yahoo! Responses will cease to work on May 4, the company officially announced. In this way, we rule out a classic that has reached its peak of popularity between its launch, in 2005, and until 2010. The nostalgic may remember the unusual answers that one could find in this forum. It was a space where questions of all kinds mingled with Answers ranging from precise data to information of dubious origin mixed with a dose of humor and irony.

Although the site is no longer accessible on May 4, a few days before, more precisely new concerns can no longer be posted on the site on April 20, nor make comments in relation to the doubts of others. Those who enter the portal after May 4 will be redirected to the portal home page.

How to request the download of published data

You can request a download of service data until June 30, 2021 by entering here. It may take up to 30 days for the request to be processed. The user will be notified by email when the material is ready for download. Once the download has been requested, no further requests can be made until the original order is ready or canceled.

This is not the first product of the company to be terminated. The Yahoo! Babel Fish ended in 2012, the same steps followed by Games, Maps and Messenger in 2014, 2015 and 2018 respectively. Genbeta He mentions in an article the closure of 69 services in total before the announcement of the end of the response portal.

A little history

The company was founded in January 1994 by two Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo, the following year it was incorporated and went public on April 12, 1996. It was one pioneer companies in the early days of the Internet. . It grew by leaps and bounds until it gradually began to remain in the shadow of other tech giants like Google, its main rival.

In 2017, Verizon acquired most of the business for the company for $ 4.48 billion, well below the $ 44.6 billion Microsoft offered in 2008 to stay with the company. Already at this time, Yahoo! He was going through difficult times, however, they found the offer not attractive enough and turned it down.

Since then and to this day, the company has lost ground in the industry and has been forced to shut down products and downsize which at one point may have represented the revolution of the digital world.

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