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

By Barry Schwartz

Published: April 1, 2014 at 12:42 pm

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, 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

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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