Want News About New York In Yahoo News? Too Bad.

If you try to search Yahoo News for [new york], you will be out of luck. Yahoo News is returning an error that reads “we did not find results for: new york.” Here is a screen shot: Other states do work, such as Florida or California, but not New York. Why? We are not sure, […]

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If you try to search Yahoo News for [new york], you will be out of luck. Yahoo News is returning an error that reads “we did not find results for: new york.”

Here is a screen shot:

yahoo-news-new-york

Other states do work, such as Florida or California, but not New York.

Why? We are not sure, it is likely a bug or maybe Yahoo has something against New York State?

Hat tip to Steve Baldwin from DidIt for spotting this.

Postscript: At 9pm EST, a Yahoo spokesperson told us the issue is now resolved but would not comment further on the matter.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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