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This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan

<p>I posted to the mailing list two issues over the weekend. <p />One about result number restriction:<blockquote>Hi, I was just reading the documentation which gives the following URL as an example:<a href="http://api.search.yahoo.com/MyWebService/V1/relatedTags?appid=YahooDemo&tag=yahoo&results=2">http://api.search.yahoo.com/MyWebService/V1/relatedTags?appid=YahooDemo&tag=yahoo&results=2</a> It is supposed to return only two results yet all 48 are returned? Is this correct? I need to start using this API and I don't know if it will return the correct results. Kind Regards, Paul Kinlan</blockquote>And the other about Contextual term extraction not processing results after an HTML style tag. i.e anything that has a "<" or ">" in:<blockquote>Hi, I have been playing with the contextual term extraction API, and I have noticed (well at least I think I have) that if there is a HTML tag in the text for term extraction then the term extraction API doesn't examine data after the starting tag. For instance if I had the following text: <blockquote>I have been trying to play with <a href="http://help.blogger.com/default/bin/answer.py?answer=1235&topic=39">Blogger BackLinks</a>, and I can say that I don't really like them. I don't really like them because people have to use them! I was expecting Blogger Backlinks to automatically link into the Google Blog search to find a list of all the blogs that link to my post. And then update my page from there. I think what I will do is develop a version that does use them, it will fire a query off to Google and see what happens from there. I mean, after all Google Blog search allows you to do this, and export the results as RSS.</blockquote> The API only seems to analyse up to and including href="xyzabc">. Anything after this in not included in the results. Has anyone else experienced this? Kind Regards, Paul Kinlan <a href="http://www.kinlan.co.uk">www.kinlan.co.uk</a></p> </blockquote><p />I got two replies on Monday (1 day after I posted the problem), one confirming that it is a bug that is being worked on and the other confirming that my problem has just been fixed. Way to go Yahoo! That is the way that I like to see services run. Keep up the good work.<p />

This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan