This forum is a ghost town. I can hardly beleive that Yahoo!, once
king of the hill, has a set of such potentially useful APIs and yet
doesn't seem to support or further the development of them.

Do I feel alone?

We're using the Yahoo! Local Search V3 API to find businesses within a
zipcode. We've correctly constructed the REST URL, but there are some
serious issues with this API. If anyone at Yahoo! checks this forum
at least once a year, please get this list of issues back to the
development team:

1. query=* does not work with long lat. It only works with zipcode.

2. we can only send about 5 or 10 webservice requests (via C#
HttpWebRequest) before the service simply shuts off. We've tried
using Thread.Sleep() commands to avoid looking like a DoS attack on
your servers, but to no avail. It seems that your Webservices simply
do not wish to be called as a Webservice.

3. Through a Web browser, we can slowly send one request per 1 or 2
seconds. However, even this has a dramatic bug: We can only get the
first 1000 results before every page of results looks identical. The
firstResultPosition can change, but the same page of results will be
returned.

I'm curious, what does Yahoo! hope to accomplish by setting up a forum
for developers and then not appearing to develop any working Webservices?