EBAY???

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Mon Mar 8 15:29:52 2004

Keyword spamming is only a problems when you do description searches;
they won't affect title searches.

"Joe R." wrote:
>
> 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_at_atarimuseum.com> wrote:
> >> .
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >
Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 15:29:52 GMT