Clark,

I've put in a bug to see what might be going on. I'll keep you updated on the
status.

My email is rtippins@yahoo-inc dot com and my cell is 510-579-5558. Feel free
to get in
touch with me.

Robyn Tippins
Community Manager, YDN

--- In yws-search-general@yahoogroups.com, "cscooper2000" <clark@...> wrote:
>
>
> 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?
>