8 Mar
2004
8 Mar
'04
6:13 a.m.
The BIG problem with searching on E-bay is the keyword SPAMMERs. A lot
of the junk sellers include a lot words for popular items in their text so
that eveytime you search for something like "hewlett packard" it finds
their listing for something like "How I got rich on E-bay" CD. The keywords
are frequently embedded as white characters on a white background or
something similar so that you don't even see them when you view the
listing. I've complained to E-bay about this practice but they don't care.
Joe
At 11:43 AM 3/8/04 -0800, you wrote:
The Ebay search engine is a bad joke. One of the searches I used to use
was:
(s-100,altair,imsai) -canon -samsung -minolta
They hyphen is not recognized, and instead of bringing up the stuff I am
interested in, 521 items get brought up including junk like "70`S AND
80`S AND 90`S 100 baseball and football cards".
I think the - in S-100 may confuse the search engine. You probably need
to enclose s-100 in quotes ( "S-100" ).
Joe
Your way of searching will totally exclude items that got posted in the
wrong catagory and other such items.
steve wrote:
--- Curt Vendel <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> wrote:
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Same applies for when I search for videogames, when
I go to look up
Atari Jaguar items I don't want to pull up Jaguar
XJ6 engine parts,
Jaguar Jungle photo's and other nonsense that has
nothing to do with
videogame related items, so I would much rather go
to a site that caters
specifically to a category of items I am looking
for.
Isn't that what the ebay categories are for? I would
think if you perform catagory specific searches you
wouldn't have all these problems.