One more thing. We opened up boards about 2 months ago for a small number of
APIs. I
just set one up for the different search APIs (like 10 mins ago). I know some
people like
email better, but if you like forums better, we'd love to have you there.

http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/

I'm there everyday and there are lots of Yahoo!'s that check the boards daily
too.

Robyn Tippins
Community Manager
Yahoo! Developer Network

--- In yws-search-general@yahoogroups.com, "Robyn Tippins" <rtippins@...> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
>