Entity bug fixed?

Can't wait with the news -- I just ran the internal tests we have and
all previously broken XMLs passed them. Thanks guys.

D.

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I haven't heard back from anyone on this yet.

Using the "site" parameter with the Yahoo Image search API appears to be
broken. Example:

http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=school&site=www.odu.edu

returns 0 images while the public web interface returns 30 for the same
query:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Awww.odu.edu+school&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt

Thanks,
Frank

Frank McCown wrote:
> Has anyone else been experiencing problems with the image search API? I
> have not changed my code at all, and it worked just fine a month ago
> (when last I ran it). I'm using the Perl Yahoo Search API library and
> searching like so:
>
> results = Yahoo::Search->Results(Image => "site:.edu dog", Count => 10,
> Start => 0, Type => 'any');
>
> This doesn't return any results, but the public web interface returns
> 112K results:
>
> http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Aedu+;dog&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
>
> It appears that the "site:" portion is what is broken. If I don't limit
> the search to a particular site (or TLD), the search returns back
> results as normal.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
>
>

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I hate to be a pain in the neck about this, but I noticed that someone
on the general search API list complained about the same problem on Jan
2, 2007:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-search-general/message/742

Jeremy, could you let us know that Yahoo is at least aware of the
problem and is looking into a fix? My application Warrick (a tool for
reconstructing lost websites from search engine caches) won't work (for
Yahoo) without the site functionality.

Thanks,
Frank

Frank McCown wrote:
> I haven't heard back from anyone on this yet.
>;
> Using the "site" parameter with the Yahoo Image search API appears to be
> broken. Example:
>
> http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=school&site=www.odu.edu
>
> returns 0 images while the public web interface returns 30 for the same
> query:
>
> http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Awww.odu.edu+school&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
>
> Frank McCown wrote:
>> Has anyone else been experiencing problems with the image search API? I
>>; have not changed my code at all, and it worked just fine a month ago
>>; (when last I ran it). I'm using the Perl Yahoo Search API library and
>>; searching like so:
>>
>> results = Yahoo::Search->Results(Image => "site:.edu dog", Count => 10,
>> Start => 0, Type => 'any');
>>
>> This doesn't return any results, but the public web interface returns
>>; 112K results:
>>
>> http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Aedu+;dog&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
>>
>> It appears that the "site:" portion is what is broken. If I don't limit
>>; the search to a particular site (or TLD), the search returns back
>>; results as normal.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Frank

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I'll file a bug for that one internally.

Thanks for the report--and persisting.

Jeremy

Frank McCown wrote:

cs.odu.edu" type="cite">

I haven't heard back from anyone on this yet.

Using the "site" parameter with the Yahoo Image search API appears to be
broken. Example:

http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=school&site=www.odu.edu

returns 0 images while the public web interface returns 30 for the same
query:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Awww.odu.edu+school&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&x=wrt

Thanks,
Frank

Frank McCown wrote:
> Has anyone else been experiencing problems with the image search API? I
> have not changed my code at all, and it worked just fine a month ago
> (when last I ran it). I'm using the Perl Yahoo Search API library and
> searching like so:
>
> results = Yahoo::Search->Results(Image => "site:.edu dog", Count => 10,
> Start => 0, Type => 'any');
>
> This doesn't return any results, but the public web interface returns
> 112K results:
>
> http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Aedu+;dog&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
>
> It appears that the "site:" portion is what is broken. If I don't limit
> the search to a particular site (or TLD), the search returns back
> results as normal.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
>
>

-- 
Jeremy Zawodny
yahoo-inc.com">jzawodnyahoo-inc.com
Yahoo! Developer Network
http://developer.yahoo.com/

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Probably most of you have heard by now that Google has deprecated their
SOAP-based web search API, and there are a lot of developers who are
very angry about the situation.

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/12/beyond-soap-search-api.html
http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/scripting-news-for-12192006/#comment-25891
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-12-20-n34.html

I am very thankful to Yahoo for their API, and I think there is a great
opportunity for them to take the lead in this area. Thank you Jeremy
for keeping an eye on this list and reporting bugs to the API group.

Regards,
Frank

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Oops... I just saw this a few hours after sending the other email.
Thanks for taking care of this, Jeremy. I guess there's some delay in
delivering email to this group... I periodically get a batch delivered
that contains posts that are several days old.

Frank

Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> I'll file a bug for that one internally.
>
> Thanks for the report--and persisting.
>
> Jeremy
>
> Frank McCown wrote:
>>
>> I haven't heard back from anyone on this yet.
>;>
>;> Using the "site" parameter with the Yahoo Image search API appears to be
>> broken. Example:
>>
>> http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=school&site=www.odu.edu
>>; <http://search.yahooapis.com/ImageSearchService/V1/imageSearch?appid=YahooDemo&query=school&site=www.odu.edu>
>>
>> returns 0 images while the public web interface returns 30 for the same
>;> query:
&gt;>
&gt;> http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Awww.odu.edu+school&ei=UTF-8&amp;fr=sfp&amp;x=wrt
>>; <http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Awww.odu.edu+school&ei=UTF-8&amp;fr=sfp&amp;x=wrt&gt;
>&gt;
>&gt; Thanks,
>> Frank
&gt;>
&gt;> Frank McCown wrote:
&gt;> > Has anyone else been experiencing problems with the image search API? I
>&gt; > have not changed my code at all, and it worked just fine a month ago
>> > (when last I ran it). I'm using the Perl Yahoo Search API library and
>> > searching like so:
>> >
>;> > results = Yahoo::Search->Results(Image => "site:.edu dog", Count => 10,
>> > Start => 0, Type => 'any');
>> >
>;> > This doesn't return any results, but the public web interface returns
>> > 112K results:
>> >
>;> >
>>; http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Aedu+;dog&ei=UTF-8&amp;fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
>>; <http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=site%3Aedu+;dog&ei=UTF-8&amp;fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt>
>> >
>;> > It appears that the "site:" portion is what is broken. If I don't limit
&gt;> > the search to a particular site (or TLD), the search returns back
>;> > results as normal.
>> >
>;> > Thanks,
>> > Frank
&gt;> >
>;> >
>;> >
>;>
>;
> --
> Jeremy Zawodny
> jzawodn%40yahoo-inc.com">jzawodnyahoo-inc.com
>; Yahoo! Developer Network
> http://developer.yahoo.com/

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>Probably most of you have heard by now that Google has deprecated their
&gt;SOAP-based web search API, and there are a lot of developers who are
>very angry about the situation.
>
&gt;http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/12/beyond-soap-search-api.html
&gt;http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/scripting-news-for-12192006/#comment-25891
>;http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-12-20-n34.html

a$$holes! THANKS Google... maybe, just maybe, AJAX is **NOT** the way we want to run our queries... DON'T SHOVE AJAX DOWN OUR THROATS!

THANKS FOR WASTING YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT, GOOGLE... I'LL REMEMBER THAT WHEN I CONSIDER MY CLIENT'S 100K+/MONTH OF PPC AD SPENDING... I think I'll give it to Yahoo instead.

I hope Google's listening to this thread.

Cameron Knowlton
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iGods Internet Marketing
cameronk%40igods.com">cameronkigods.com
www.igods.com
P: 250.382.0226

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