Yahoo Answers Considered Harmful
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity
– Voltaire
Information on Yahoo Answers is not just wrong, it’s downright harmful. I haven’t deliberately searched on Yahoo Answers for a long time, but the results often show up in Google.
Take the issue of using hand sanitizers on open cuts: not only do the top results on Google lead to dangerously wrong Yahoo Answers, but the users who provided them were rewarded for their answer.
Don’t use Yahoo Answers.
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Please consider using “Personal Blocklist” extension for Chrome. You can block websites from google results and if you’re a long time Google user it will affect the target site page rank.
I’m considering it, but I don’t like the idea of removing information from search results. I would rather read and ignore Yahoo Answers 9 times out of 10, then miss a correct answer once. I wouldn’t trust Yahoo Answers for anything important, but the fear of missing information holds me back from removing them.