Breaking News: Yahoo Search Down!!!!

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


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looks and works good from here

 

its working fine here, i just checked it

 

Yeah, no problems here either.

 

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

 

Does anybody know what's going on?

Strange .. still not working for me ...

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

 

How is this "breaking news" ?

 

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

 

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.

 

Its all good here.

 

*cough*

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

 

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

 

All fine here from Ireland

 

Everything ok with me:

Wake up Wacko time to go to School

 

Its working fine in India.

 

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 means you were using yahoo too much. And Yahoo has temporary blocked you to access their services.

 

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.