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1		Alex Moskalyuk prostoalex	Aug 16, 2006 4:12 pm
	The documentation mentions the 5,000 queries a day limit, but I find my service getting denied after a thousand or so requests. Are there any limits on...
2		Quy Le quy	Aug 16, 2006 6:02 pm
	... Hi Alex, We need more information from you to help us determine the root cause of your problem. Can you answers questions below and give us any more...
3		pawelmas	Aug 16, 2006 8:32 pm
	What is the result sorting logic via the API and is there a way to influence that? For example a search for "How old is madonna?" returns "How much for Madonna...
4		Nick Nguyen nirhalen	Aug 16, 2006 9:27 pm
	Sorting is based on relevance right now, and we are still tweaking the algorithm. Unfortunately there is no way to specific an exact match at this time....
5		Balaji K balajikumara	Aug 17, 2006 6:33 am
	Hi, I need to know, does the options sorting=date, sorting =ranking hold good for the new released API's ...
6		prasadg75	Aug 17, 2006 5:17 pm
	Is there OR Will there be a way to identify users who have answered frequently for a given topic?(More specifically user who has answered and earned max...
7		Barbara auntb1947	Aug 17, 2006 5:33 pm
	OK, I do not even know if I qualify as a "Developer." I will need the term defined. I know a little FrontPage and Microsoft Office Suite, and I am just...
8		Paul pbirnie	Aug 17, 2006 7:40 pm
	Hi there, I am wondering if there is support for restricting question search by country so that http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch? ...
9		chris_draycott	Aug 17, 2006 8:00 pm
	Restricting by country is coming in the not too distant future. Watch this space!...
10		Quy Le quy	Aug 17, 2006 8:39 pm
	... We are looking into possibility to allow country filtering. Thanks. Quy...
11		Alex Moskalyuk prostoalex	Aug 18, 2006 9:56 pm
	Ok, so here's the latest, denial roughly at 2 pm services used was getQuestion <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Error xmlns="urn:yahoo:api"> The...
12		Balaji K balajikumara	Aug 23, 2006 4:43 pm
	Hi This is regarding the option result. If I give result=20, I still receive only 10 (the default number) Can anyone in the grp clarify this Example: ...
13		Balaji K balajikumara	Aug 23, 2006 4:46 pm
	Hi , Will the API output and the web search (output from http://answers.yahoo.com/ ) be different? I could hardly see matches. For example : I typed "how to...
14		chris_draycott	Aug 23, 2006 5:01 pm
	Hi Balaji, You want results=20, not result=20 http://answers.yahooapis.com/AnswersService/V1/questionSearch? ...
15		chris_draycott	Aug 23, 2006 5:27 pm
	Sorting in the API is currently date based (most recent first). We are hoping to add options to control this at the API level in the not too distant future....
16		samafutt	Sep 1, 2006 4:14 pm
	Hi there... i'm making queries in the browser for "dog" and sometimes i get results , sometimes i dont. Could anyone help me? Thank you....
17		chris_draycott	Sep 1, 2006 4:27 pm
	Hi Samafutt, What is the query you are using? Are you getting an error back, or a valid return, but with 0 results? How often does this happen?...
18		samafutt	Sep 1, 2006 4:41 pm
	I got an error with 'service temporary unavailable'. And it happens 10%......
19		chris_draycott	Sep 1, 2006 4:43 pm
	... Thanks for the information. We will investigate....
20		gh_samya	Sep 11, 2006 4:46 pm
	Hi, Can I get the total number of search results I got for a particular search query, so that it is possible show the advance page numbers like "<< previous...
21		chris_draycott	Sep 12, 2006 5:22 pm
	... Not currently, no. That is something we will consider adding in a future release though. Keep an eye on http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/ for updates as...
22		samafutt	Sep 15, 2006 4:40 pm
	Hi. Is there a possiblility to know how many categories are, by making a query or something like that? Thanks....
23		Andy (or Bee) stickercam	Sep 15, 2006 4:54 pm
	Hi, on this page: http://developer.yahoo.com/answers/V1/getByCategory.html it says that: omit for default "date_desc" * date_desc: By date, descending from...
24		Andy (or Bee) stickercam	Sep 19, 2006 1:03 am
	When listing the questions in the new category Plug-ins (Home > Yahoo! Products > Yahoo! Messenger > Plug-ins >), eg: ...
25		Yarram V Sunil Kumar yvsunil	Sep 20, 2006 4:55 pm
	Hi, How can i get the user_id for a given yahoo id? is it possible? Thanks, Sunil....
26		chris_draycott	Sep 20, 2006 5:17 pm
	... Currently you cannot do this since it potentially constitutes a provacy issue. While users do have to be signe din to use the product, they do not have to...
27		Andy (or Bee) stickercam	Oct 2, 2006 11:15 pm
	Hi, I'm still getting this behaviour for this category, is it just me? is it a bug or a feature? Is it a known problem that is being worked on? am I asking in...
28		chris_draycott	Oct 2, 2006 11:58 pm
	Hi Andy, Thanks for letting us know. This is being investigated....
29		Dan Theurer dantheurer	Oct 31, 2006 5:53 pm
	When we launched our first APIs for Search <http://developer.yahoo.com/search> , they were all located on api.search.yahoo.com. With an API offer that is...
30		david.marr	Nov 13, 2006 5:33 pm
	... any updates on this issue? still seeing requests coming back with empty result sets a small % of the time....

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