[whatyesaid]

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.

[adolph]

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...!

[byset]

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.

[rchaud]

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.

[jamiek88]

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

[hellomyguys]

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.

[unreal37]

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.

[max_hammer]

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

[LocalH]

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