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[BUG] Category search not working

Category searches in Local API seem to be inconsistent. I'm trying to search the department store category (96935005) in the Springfield, IL area. If I search using a search string "SEARS", I can see Sears and I can see the department store category.

(appid replaced)
http://local.yahooapis.com/LocalSearchServ...nce&start=1

(partial results)
<Result id="17617291">
<Title>Sears Roebuck & Company</Title>
<Address>104 White Oaks Mall</Address>
<City>Springfield</City>
<State>IL</State>
...
<Categories>
<Category id="96927654">Hardware & Tools</Category>
<Category id="96929016">Clothing Stores</Category>
<Category id="96935005">Department Stores</Category>
</Categories>
</Result>

BUT...when I search based on category only, I get nothing.

http://local.yahooapis.com/LocalSearchServ...005&start=1

<ResultSet xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:lcl http://local.yahooapis.com/LocalSearchServ...ponse.xsd" totalResultsAvailable="0" totalResultsReturned="0" firstResultPosition="1">
<ResultSetMapUrl/>
</ResultSet>
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Am I doing something wrong?

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  • I have an iPhone app that's been using category search (with query=*) for over a year now and I suddenly have the same problem. My app is useless with this broken so if someone could take a look, that would be great.

    Thank you,
    Rudro.
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  • FYI - YQL is also failing to provide results when using category in the query against the local.search table - noticed this today
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  • Local Search with wildcard query (query=*) with specified category has stopped working. Can someone from Yahoo look into this?
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  • Use ? instead of *
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  • QUOTE (Milos @ May 23 2010, 11:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Use ? instead of *


    Thanks Milos - this worked for me.
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  • QUOTE (Milos @ May 23 2010, 11:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Use ? instead of *


    Why didn't the documentation change?
    http://developer.yahoo.com/search/local/V3/localSearch.html
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