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Directory Categories Missing?

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nevetS

2:26 am on Jan 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

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What happened to yahoo today?

I just tried clicking on a number of categories looking for my new listing or anyone else added the same day (6 days ago) and all of the directory pages take me to:
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Yahoo! - Document Not Found
The document you requested was not found.

The category you are trying to reach may have moved. To find a relocated category, try searching on the category name in Yahoo!.

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Searching on the category name brings up the same link, which yields the same results. Not just my listing, many.

Some examples right off the bat.

/Regional/U_S__States/California/Cities/San_Francisco/
- Business_and_Shopping/Shopping_and_Services/Transportation/Limousines_and_Shuttles/

/Regional/U_S__States/California/Cities/Malibu/
- Business_and_Shopping/Business_to_Business/Construction/

/Regional/U_S__States/Indiana/Real_Estate/Mortgage_Loans/

[edited by: Woz at 2:38 am (utc) on Jan. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] fixed Scrollism [/edit]

pendanticist

2:36 am on Jan 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/

Judging by all the 'New' icons on this page, I'd think they're doing some re-organizational stuff.

There's been mentions of deleted Yahoo! accounts today too.

Woz

2:37 am on Jan 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hmmm, I found the 1st cat OK by drilling down from dir.yahoo.com, didn't try the others though. Maybe at was something else going wrong.

Onya
Woz

steveb

3:00 am on Jan 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Worked for me, but I had to click refresh for one to load.

nevetS

5:10 am on Jan 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Strange, I just tried again and get the same error. I wonder if my local cache server might be broken for some reason.

If I go higher up the directory tree, I get results, but breaking into any of the categories I posted - either through just prefixing dir.yahoo.com to the directories above, or drilling through manually - yields the same error page as before.

Strange things are afoot. I would think it's a me problem, but it's a yahoo error page.