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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 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.

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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_acquisitio...!

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.

And ironically quora answers now pollute google results and elicit similar eyerolls.

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.

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.

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.

Reddit / Quora / stackexchage are always top results in google search

Reddit isn't really a "crowdsourced answer site" in the way that the latter two are, though

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