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Will Verizon continue the spamming as part of their financial structure?

Since more than half of the "questions" currently being posted are cut and paste copies of real questions from years ago, it is evident that Yahoo uses these commercial spammers as a vital source of income. Does Verizon have any plans to make Answers a legitimate site?

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No. How do we know that Verizon isn't behind this. Could it be part of a larger scheme to spam. If you're yahoo and know that Verizon is going to take over then aren't you more likely to do what Verizon wants you to do. If Verizon is anti-spam don't you think yahoo would be working on fixing that problem.

    Have you noticed that the old questions all have certain words in the question. I was just on the video games section and the word crew appears on several questions. Could it be a test to see how effective a search function is. Right now most search engine sucks. It just looks for words but not exactly what you want. If you use a long string search you should get better results but currently it only searches for all those words which makes it worse. What if it got smarter and actually searches for what you want. If you're looking for an answer concerning video games thenut searches only for answers that's related to video games instead of just about anywhere.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    There are some very strange people, or they could be faulty bots. What is happening with me is, several level one accounts are answering my very old questions, and it's always an exact copy of an answer that was already there. I've blocked about five of the accounts that were doing it up to now.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Probably.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No.

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