Breaking News: Yahoo Search Down!!!!

[Christine8]

I just tried a couple of searches in Yahoo....


Sorry, Unable to process request at this time -- error 999.
Yahoo!

Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.

If you continue to experience this error, it may be caused by one of the following:

* You may want to scan your system for spyware and viruses, as they may interfere with your ability to connect to Yahoo!. For detailed information on spyware and virus protection, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center.
* This problem may be due to unusual network activity coming from your Internet Service Provider. We recommend that you report this problem to them.

Return to Yahoo!

Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below.

[templates]

looks and works good from here

[SticKer]

its working fine here, i just checked it

[CReed]

Yeah, no problems here either.

[jazz7620]

I saw that message on yahoo australia...not on yahoo usa

[Christine8]

Does anybody know what's going on?

Strange .. still not working for me ...

Does anybody know what's going on?

You experienced a problem and assumed that everyone else will also.

[sundaybrew]

How is this "breaking news" ?

[gautam1985]

well yahoo servers might be busy from somewhere thats why u are getting these msgs. few days ago it happend to me also. wait for a while or might be 6 - 8 hours it should work fine

[onlinedude]

Yahoo! may just have flagged your IP as using automated queries and has temporarily blocked your use of their search.

[Christine8]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/479238988_77315178e7.jpg?v=0

[Christine8]

Yahoo! may just have flagged your IP as using automated queries and has temporarily blocked your use of their search.

I am not running anything that could cause that.

[qwestcommunications]

Its all good here.

[Nintendo]

*cough*

If you continue to experience this error, it may be caused by one of the following:

* You may want to scan your system for spyware and viruses, as they may interfere with your ability to connect to Yahoo!. For detailed information on spyware and virus protection, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center.
* This problem may be due to unusual network activity coming from your Internet Service Provider. We recommend that you report this problem to them.

Now, could some one wake me up when there really is breaking news!!!

[Stax_Daniel]

all good on my end...must just be something local for you

[sparksflying]

All fine here from Ireland :)

[Yfcadmin]

Everything ok with me:


*cough*



Now, could some one wake me up when there really is breaking news!!!

Wake up Wacko time to go to School :D

[djrishi]

Its working fine in India.

[stevewaganer]

I just tried a couple of searches in Yahoo....


Sorry, Unable to process request at this time -- error 999.
Yahoo!

Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.

If you continue to experience this error, it may be caused by one of the following:

* You may want to scan your system for spyware and viruses, as they may interfere with your ability to connect to Yahoo!. For detailed information on spyware and virus protection, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center.
* This problem may be due to unusual network activity coming from your Internet Service Provider. We recommend that you report this problem to them.

Return to Yahoo!

Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below.


I know this problem very well even its appearing from last 3 months .

Basically what is the funda with this when some people try to search more and more and yahoo then yahoo get disconnected for sometime and it give this error because the program of yahoo thinks that its a spam or virus who is searching on yahoo .

So thats why this problem occurs i have faces this problem many time like if you are using any software to generate the rankign reports then this problem certainly occurs ... so dont take bother from this problem your yahoo will be working after some time .

Or you should contatc your Service Provider or administrator....

[it career]

It means you were using yahoo too much. And Yahoo has temporary blocked you to access their services.
I just tried a couple of searches in Yahoo....


Sorry, Unable to process request at this time -- error 999.
Yahoo!

Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.

If you continue to experience this error, it may be caused by one of the following:

* You may want to scan your system for spyware and viruses, as they may interfere with your ability to connect to Yahoo!. For detailed information on spyware and virus protection, please visit the Yahoo! Security Center.
* This problem may be due to unusual network activity coming from your Internet Service Provider. We recommend that you report this problem to them.

Return to Yahoo!

Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. If you're having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo!, try visiting the Yahoo! home page or look through a list of Yahoo!'s online services. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below.

[Yfcadmin]

Yes automatic queries are one big reason for this. If too many queries are generated from a specific IP .. the ip gets 999 error sometime. :D

[Le GoogelGuRu]

Last night I got several errors, page not found for http://search.yahoo.ca but it was okay within 15 minutes.

[maldives]

Must be a good news for Google. :D

[gr8liverpoolfan]

Must be a good news for Google. :D

It won't affect Google at all. They do not need Yahoo! converts. Maybe in certain markets yes, but in most places of the world, there will be no need for Google to get some Y charity

[Christine8]

Yahoo gets more than 50% of their traffic from their email system. Most people don't realize that this is still the number one usage of the Internet (even if 2/3 is spam now).

[2AO]

For the past week yahoo has been very very slow for me. I'm not surprised by this at all.

I check yahoo daily and I've never seen these types of issues. It's as if they have a bunch of servers running close to capacity.

I thought I was the only one having problems !

[Rub3X]

Is there a reason to use Yahoo at all? Their search sucks, their email sucks, and their portal is bloated and crappy.

[Mr_2]

probably you using some black listed ip ( proxy)

[AffiliateD]

Ive never had that problem

[runnerunner]

yahoo's inventory tool isn't working for me http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
it down for anyone else?

[BlindCat]

well it doesn't matter to me....as i never use yahoo.. :) And its working fine btw. Probably your ip has been temporarily banned for service abuse.

[runnerunner]

i don't think i'd be banned. unless rugged good looks and boyish charm is a bannable offense.

[BillCarson]

Runner,

It's not working for me too. I don't even go there. So might be my IP is blacklisted because of some other user or Yahoo is having problem!

Bill

[NoobieDoobieDo]

Here is my yahoo as of now.

I've been trying to load new.yahoo.com for over 3 minutes now. I'm on a 3 megabit cable connection.

This is amazing.

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7808/yahoonewsze8.jpg

[Rub3X]

Yahoo has been working fine for me. However, overture has been timing out alllll over the place for the last week or so. Does overture include yahoo searches too? Or is it just Google?

[login]

Overture has always been slow to me. A cople of weeks ago I send an email to the local yahoo advertising contact where I live and told them that I would stop advertising with yahoo and spend my $50000 other places because of the slow overture tool. (I have never advertised with them of course), but they got very nervous and wanted me to stay, but I just said no. Hehe, thats how I have fun these days. I must get a life soon.

[runnerunner]

Overture has always been slow to me. A cople of weeks ago I send an email to the local yahoo advertising contact where I live and told them that I would stop advertising with yahoo and spend my $50000 other places because of the slow overture tool. (I have never advertised with them of course), but they got very nervous and wanted me to stay, but I just said no. Hehe, thats how I have fun these days. I must get a life soon.

LOL! wow, well played

[tlainevool]

The 999 error is caused because of a blocked IP, here is a good summary:

http://www.murraymoffatt.com/software-problem-0011.html

[BillCarson]

Page uploads for me now but it's real slow.

[NoobieDoobieDo]

This is really sad I guess Ima eventually stop going to yahoo news cause the page wont load a lot of the time now.

However all other web pages load fine.

[fedoras]

Working hard for me...overture is not working.