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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:46 am Post subject: eBay Search needs to get smarter |
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A few weeks back I was looking for the complete boxed set of all seven seasons of The West Wing on eBay. As you would, I searched for “West Wing DVDs complete” – and turned up hundreds. The problem was that rather than being what I wanted, they were the complete season 1, the complete season 2, and so on.
Wouldn’t it be cool, I thought to myself, if Best Match was clever enough to see that I hadn’t specified a season, even though tWW has seven, and to figure out that what I’m *probably* looking for, then, is the complete complete set, rather than any one season, and show me those first.
And then, coincidentally, Adam Nash wrote a post about the same thing. If you don’t know Adam, he used to work for eBay, and he is exceptionally smart, so when his colleague Ikai unfavourably compared the prices of Deep Space 9 DVD sets available on eBay and Amazon, he set out to figure out why eBay looked like such a bad deal.
Here’s what he found (republished with permission).
When I searched on eBay, I found literally dozens of items priced below $300 [Amazon's shipped price was $313], many of which were from top sellers, and many of which that offered returns. In fact, I saw items as low as $130, but I tried to find the lowest priced item that matched the quality of service Ikai would expect from an Amazon third party seller.
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DaLizardsLair
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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While we're at it, could we get something added to TV sets, to make the programs more intelligent?
They have a control called "Brightness" but it does no good. |
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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:34 am Post subject: Re: eBay Search needs to get smarter |
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Related:
"eBay Search Goes Down Briefly at Midnight"
eBay experienced a search outage Monday night. The problem occurred as early as 11:49 pm PST, and eBay posted an alert at 11:52 pm on its System Announcement Board:
Members searching for items were seeing the error "We were unable to run the search you entered."
Twenty-five minutes later, eBay posted an announcement stating the problem had been resolved:
We have corrected the problem and member will no longer see these errors. Thank you for your patience.
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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 16923
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:52 am Post subject: Re: eBay Search needs to get smarter |
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"eBay Testing New Search Features"
eBay said today it is launching a new offering called "Garden by eBay," an area on the site that will allow members to test new features and provide feedback for improvements and changes.
Garden by eBay is an opt-in initiative with a concept that is similar to Google Labs where users can test and experiment with different features before they are officially released.
eBay says that Garden members' feedback will be provided directly to the teams that manage new, proposed or existing features. The goal is to bring buyers and sellers into the process and help the company introduce, test and roll out features faster.
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