posted on October 18, 2003 10:08:06 AM new
How long has this page been around? I just found it when I hit "Browse" and saw Spotlights On........ eBay Keywords.
posted on October 18, 2003 10:24:14 AM new
Yes, thanks, Kiara. As usual, you are a huge help to all of us.
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posted on October 18, 2003 01:11:00 PM new
Keyword searching using keyword.ebay.com is surprisingly brain-dead. Apparently eBay has invested no money at all on intelligent search algorithms.
I clicked on "Silver Jewelry", then "Charms and Charm Bracelets", then ranked them by lowest price. This should have given me a page on which 50-60% of the listings would be mine.
But surprise: none of my listings show up. Why? Because I don't put the word "jewelry" in my titles.
Stupid, eBay, really stupid. You really can't invest a few bucks in a programmer who could tell the search engine that "bracelet" is part of the "jewelry" set? C'mon.
Amazon solved this years ago.
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posted on October 18, 2003 02:02:23 PM new
Don't you think it's interesting that the VEROs are searchable this way? Makes it simple for them to find violators.
posted on October 18, 2003 02:53:14 PM new
That page took a looong time to load for me, and I have highspeed. If I were on my old dialup modem I would have given up waiting.
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