Lesson plan

Yahoo Maps

Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. It was shut down on June 30, 2015. For a limited time until 2019, Yahoo! Maps could be accessed in the United States on Yahoo Search, albeit powered by Here WeGo. However, that is no longer possible.

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Article summary

Yahoo! Maps was a free online mapping portal provided by Yahoo! Functionality included local weather powered by The Weather Channel, printing maps, and local reviews powered by Yelp. It was shut down on June 30, 2015. For a limited time until 2019, Yahoo! Maps could be accessed in the United States on Yahoo Search, albeit powered by Here WeGo. However, that is no longer possible.

Key claims

  1. release date: 2005 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the release date is "2005". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377809766

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.