By Dalí Veliz
Marketing4eCommerce Editor
ANDCompanies like Google, Microsoft and Apple have managed to maintain their relevance and importance in the Internet landscape over the years. However, this is not a rule that we can apply to all companies from those early years of the web, no matter how big they were. Let's take the case of Yahoo, which once rivaled Google and Microsoft, but a cycle of bad decisions led the company to decline .
By 2016, the company was bought by the telephone giant Verizon , and has been undergoing a process of adapting to its business model ever since. And, although it has recently made announcements that could bring it back into the digital landscape, there is very little left of the Yahoo we knew.
Goodbye Yahoo Answers!
As a further step towards forgetting its former glory and finland business email database regretting its past mistakes, the company has announced through a statement the closure of its Yahoo Answers service . Yes, the platform that became a reference for search in the past, becoming a default source for clarifying doubts on the Internet.
The company announced the closure of this veteran of the web without a very elaborate announcement; on the Yahoo Answers site you can find a banner indicating its imminent closure. Likewise, they enabled a help page to clarify the doubts that users have about this new process. In this they clarify that the closure will occur in two parts ; first, starting April 20, it will be impossible to generate questions or answers on the platform.