Yahoo has announced and urged the API developers to make changes to their request URL accordingly and point to yahooapis.com. Put that simply, we will have to change the request url from: http://api.search.yahoo.com/..... Code (markup): to: http://search.yahooapis.com/..... Code (markup): They will only update the yahooapis.com in future so it is advisable to make changes in our applications. FYI Source: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2006/10/apis_found_a_ne.html