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[AznHisoka]

What about Yahoo Answers? I hate seeing their results show up in the top 3 when I do a Google search. They're always low quality and not useful.

[sanarothe → AznHisoka]

Fun fact: practically every assigned problem in undergrad chemistry, physics and math is solved on yahoo answers.

[anpk → sanarothe]

My dad loves solving the physics problems on yahoo answers.

[abrkn → anpk]

I'd love to see an example

[anpk → abrkn]

I dont know what id he uses. I'll ask next time.

[ascorbic → sanarothe]

Don't forget biology: "How is babby formed?"

[throwawayukcyb → sanarothe]

I can't speak for chemistry or physics, but that must be an incredibly poor mathematics program? I can't remember seeing anything past calc on yahoo answers and those answers were almost always wrong, or correct but with wrong explanations.

[calebegg → AznHisoka]

I love how Yahoo Answers is basically a crowd-sourced unit conversion engine that makes lots of mistakes. I notice it show up a lot below the Google-supplied unit conversion I'm actually seeking.

Example: https://www.google.com/search?&q=what+is+3+lbs+in+kg+site%3A...

[atrudeau → AznHisoka]

Blast Yahoo Answers back to hell by installing a Chrome extension called Google Search Filter: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-search-filt...

Add Experts-Exchange to the blacklist while you're at it.

[johnmaguire → atrudeau]

Thanks for this! Firefox alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hide-unwanted...

[atrudeau → johnmaguire]

Ah, nice! Only downside is that it doesn't support highlighting certain results. For example, Google Search Filter highlights Wikipedia and StackExchange results for, while removing cruft like Yahoo Answers.

[douche → atrudeau]

I think Google has done a pretty good job at blacklisting Expert-sExchange. I don't remember the last time they turned up in my search results.

[lostcolony → AznHisoka]

No, that needs to stay. Just so My Brother, My Brother and Me can continue answering them.

[nandemo → AznHisoka]

Incidentally, Yahoo Japan's version of Answers is quite useful and mostly troll-free.

[Scoundreller → AznHisoka]

It's free content, and they can sell ads on it. Personally, I'd love to own it.

[Scoundreller → Scoundreller]

And to add to that, I think Yahoo's biggest mistake with Answers, and a lot of their other properties, was to put them on subdomains.

Their value would be a lot higher if they could seamlessly transfer ownership of the property. Rebranding costs users.

[lotso → AznHisoka]

I've definitely found Yahoo Answers often useful. I'd argue Yahoo Answers is probably more helpful for the average person than Quora.

[guelo → AznHisoka]

I've gotten useful info out of it.

[Pxtl → AznHisoka]

Seriously, it's worse than the content farms they booted.

[vram22 → AznHisoka]

Similar experience, the few times I have used it, sadly.

[chatmasta → AznHisoka]

Your problem is with Google, not Yahoo...