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points by johnnyApplePRNG 2 days ago | 0 comments

I'll never understand this.

31 years in operation and you just ... close completely?

The long tail of 31 years of goodwill is worthless?

Why not turn it into a news aggregator site like yahoo news or something, at least?

[–] paulpauper 2 days ago

it will exist to collect ad revenue on its huge library or articles

[–] johnnyApplePRNG 2 days ago

OK so they're not shutting down shutting down.... they're just not penning articles any longer?

ask.com closing was more along the lines of what I was talking about then. that bugs me that they don't still have any form of simple search or a news portal or anything.... just, "bye!".

Seems like a waste.

[–] paulpauper 2 days ago

collecting ad revenue is much cheaper than a full time staff