EBAY???

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon Mar 8 15:39:32 2004

  True but I do a lot of description searches. People write mis-leading
titles just like they put stuff in the wrong catagory.

    Joe

At 01:29 PM 3/8/04 -0800, you wrote:
>
>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 - 15:39:32 GMT