Seems like when you zoom to a very high level (say a few hundred feet across) results are returned for a high zoom level, meaning many pins are added which are not "in this area" and cannot be viewed until the user zooms out.
Ideally the bounding box used to "redo search in area" would match the users visual area on screen. If that area is, for some reason "too small" to get useable results, we should investigate/file upstream request to support smaller bounding areas.