Yahoo Answers to Shut Down br Permanently in May.br The question-and-answer feature will br be removed on April 20, and the site’s br entire archives will be wiped on May 4.br Yahoo told its users in a letter that it “decided to shift br our resources away from Yahoo Answers to focus br on products that better serve our members.”.br The move comes after the service began br losing popularity over the years to br competitor sites like Quora and Reddit.br Though the company itself won’t be archiving any br of its 16 years worth of questions and answers,br users have been cataloging their favorites.