Comments on: More tests on new search results http://tamebay.com/2007/07/more-tests-on-new-search-results.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ‘Best match’ made default on eBay France : TameBay http://tamebay.com/2007/07/more-tests-on-new-search-results.html#comment-9404 ‘Best match’ made default on eBay France : TameBay Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:14:54 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/07/more-tests-on-new-search-results.html#comment-9404 [...] Only three categories - CDs/Records, Crafts and Coins - are being tested with this new sort so far, but with similar tests being run for some buyers on eBay UK, it seems that this is the favourite for the future of eBay. Results for those who browse by category - who seem to have slipped eBay’s mind recently - will continue to be sorted by time remaining. [...] [...] Only three categories – CDs/Records, Crafts and Coins – are being tested with this new sort so far, but with similar tests being run for some buyers on eBay UK, it seems that this is the favourite for the future of eBay. Results for those who browse by category – who seem to have slipped eBay’s mind recently – will continue to be sorted by time remaining. [...]

]]> By: Allotment http://tamebay.com/2007/07/more-tests-on-new-search-results.html#comment-9327 Allotment Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:11:52 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/2007/07/more-tests-on-new-search-results.html#comment-9327 Hello Sue, If you visit the eBay Playground site you can get a feeling for how the new search might look. It's the usual ebay site with a candidate test search enabled (to the top of the page you'll see "You're on the Playground" as a reminder). It's item specifics based but also does stuff with certain keywords. For example a search for French will also return items keyworded with synonyms of the word such as 'France', a colour specification will sometimes pick up close match colours, and so on. There doesn't seem to be an 'advanced' search facility, though I guess that is simply a limitation of the test environment. The keyword and item specifics nature of the search gives a result set that crosses the old style categories I've also found that if you take the whirlpool baths search result page from your July 27th article as a start point and begin a new search from there that your results seem to be displayed using that test search system. You can aslo navigate back from that shops oriented result page to auction listings searches in the new format. Obviously it's not clear if this new search is the 2% of users trial being launched at the moment.......... Searching my own category (I sell Edwardian Postcards) provides some good results and some that worry For example a search for postcard auction items using the keywords 'Marie Studholme' (she was a musical stage star) gives me a good 11 results, two of which have been listed in the wrong category and that might otherwise have been missed. However some other searches left me confused and not being able to refine or limit searches to a broad category seeming to be the main problem. Similarly the body text of auctions seem to count for little if anything, a search of postcard auctions using a keyword that is in the body text of many of my auctions provides zero results, the same search on the live search system returns those auctions. Linda Hello Sue,
If you visit the eBay Playground site you can get a feeling for how the new search might look. It’s the usual ebay site with a candidate test search enabled (to the top of the page you’ll see “You’re on the Playground” as a reminder). It’s item specifics based but also does stuff with certain keywords. For example a search for French will also return items keyworded with synonyms of the word such as ‘France’, a colour specification will sometimes pick up close match colours, and so on. There doesn’t seem to be an ‘advanced’ search facility, though I guess that is simply a limitation of the test environment. The keyword and item specifics nature of the search gives a result set that crosses the old style categories

I’ve also found that if you take the whirlpool baths search result page from your July 27th article as a start point and begin a new search from there that your results seem to be displayed using that test search system. You can aslo navigate back from that shops oriented result page to auction listings searches in the new format. Obviously it’s not clear if this new search is the 2% of users trial being launched at the moment……….

Searching my own category (I sell Edwardian Postcards) provides some good results and some that worry For example a search for postcard auction items using the keywords ‘Marie Studholme’ (she was a musical stage star) gives me a good 11 results, two of which have been listed in the wrong category and that might otherwise have been missed. However some other searches left me confused and not being able to refine or limit searches to a broad category seeming to be the main problem. Similarly the body text of auctions seem to count for little if anything, a search of postcard auctions using a keyword that is in the body text of many of my auctions provides zero results, the same search on the live search system returns those auctions.

Linda

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