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    copied!<p>Every now and then I call the Flickr API to do a photo search using tags, and it returns 0 results for some tags while returning plenty of results for others. All the tags are major popular tags so the chances of there actually being no results is nil.</p> <p>For example, right now, when I try a search for "actor" (&amp;tags=actor) I get no results. But if I try a search for "war" (&amp;tags=war) I get the usual long list of results. When this situation pops up, it stays in place sometimes for hours and then just magically clears up.</p> <p>Has anybody else seen this syndrome via the Flickr API? If so, did you come up with a way to clean it up?</p> <p>Here are the two REST queries I am using. I'm showing the empty response for "actor", but left out the full response for "war" for brevity purposes.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&amp;api_key=...hidden...&amp;user_id=&amp;tags=actor&amp;tag_mode=&amp;text=&amp;min_upload_date=&amp;max_upload_date=&amp;min_taken_date=&amp;max_taken_date=&amp;license=&amp;extras=&amp;per_page=&amp;page=&amp;sort=" rel="nofollow">http://flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&amp;api_key=...hidden...&amp;user_id=&amp;tags=actor&amp;tag_mode=&amp;text=&amp;min_upload_date=&amp;max_upload_date=&amp;min_taken_date=&amp;max_taken_date=&amp;license=&amp;extras=&amp;per_page=&amp;page=&amp;sort=</a></p> </blockquote> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt;&lt;rsp stat="ok"&gt;&lt;photos page="1" pages="0" perpage="100" total="0" /&gt;&lt;/rsp&gt; </code></pre> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&amp;api_key=...hidden...&amp;user_id=&amp;tags=war&amp;tag_mode=&amp;text=&amp;min_upload_date=&amp;max_upload_date=&amp;min_taken_date=&amp;max_taken_date=&amp;license=&amp;extras=&amp;per_page=&amp;page=&amp;sort=" rel="nofollow">http://flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&amp;api_key=...hidden...&amp;user_id=&amp;tags=war&amp;tag_mode=&amp;text=&amp;min_upload_date=&amp;max_upload_date=&amp;min_taken_date=&amp;max_taken_date=&amp;license=&amp;extras=&amp;per_page=&amp;page=&amp;sort=</a></p> </blockquote> <p>{full list of photos returned}</p>
 

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