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Friday, November 05, 2010 7:50 AM/EST Google Preps Product Search Overhaul to Battle Amazon, eBay Google is reportedly close to releasing a refreshed Google Product Search service leveraging the technology it acquired from Like.com, which it picked up in August. Like.com makes a visual search e...

Striving for the superlative failure! from eBay Announces Second-Quarter Financial Results for 2010 By: Ina Steiner Wed July 21 2010 16:20:58 'Update: In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon, eBay told analysts it would tweak U.S. search, and that it would launch new "tailored shoppin...

Searching ebaY for some collectible stuff, I saw what may be some search-related stray code sticking out of ebaY's pages once or twice, but not everytime. I think the other time it showed different 'finding treatments' listed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us I wonder what would happen if a restauran...

More ebaY Search & Category Fail

Outage Costs PayPal Users Up To $32 Million -- Report (EBAY) The picture alone is worth a click. I bet they go down again or have some other troubles. Soon.

Having a look over at sleazebay it appears a monumental scam/scandal is , and has been going on for one full month at least. Sellers report extrememly low page views and sales. In addition, more talk and evidence of "rolling blackouts", unannounced search beta testing, and the biggest te...

Have a look. Note the emptiness of the right hand area... Uploaded with ImageShack.us I did't get a screenshot, but when you hover over the listing area, a balloon type message fades in advising you to click for details, whereupon a tall skinny column opens in the far right (empty) area of the screen wi...

ebaY racking up the lawsuits...

Class Claims EBay Ad Program Flopped Wednesday, January 25, 2012Last Update: 11:40 AM PT SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - EBay didn't deliver on its promises to sellers who paid $39.95 for its "Featured Plus!" service that was supposed to bump their ads to...

verrry interestink...

what the he// is going on with this search Jan 30, 2012 04:37 AM Reply i was going through and searching for some knives i went through 51 pages with 200 on each page, when i went to go to page 52 this pops up. so are you only allowed to view a certain amount of items. i have tr...

from eBay Tests Ads in Sellers Listings on US Site I see this: "Through the extensive inventory provided by our sellers, buyers have tremendous opportunity to find exactly what they are looking for," Hoff said. "In those rare instances where the item is not available on eBay, we wa...

eBay Listens to Customers, Retires Old Search Engine Skipping straight to the punch line: "At least eBay's management is for once admitting that they are listening to users." I believe this is the same search technology which made ebay express what IT is today.

"Best Match" down? seems to be strictly "time left" Uploaded with ImageShack.us So the one thing people complain most about, and quite arguably one of the the roots of destruction of ebay (as it was for ebay express) breaks down and gets corrected in record time. Meanwhile......

Seller Shows Strange Traffic Pattern on eBay By: Ina Steiner Wed May 9 2012 10:23:42 eBay sellers have talked for years about rolling blackouts, "tap-on-tap-off" visibility, "rolling-region" visibility and other strange phenomenon that they say lead to odd sales patter...

Another fly-by-night, shady, spur of the moment policy change. eBay Ejects Half.com Listings

eBay: All Style, No Substance Ebay has been taking quite a flogging lately over the obviously failing Cassini project and some of the related search policies/features, from auction-ecommerce-bytes. I think the fun starts here, but there's so much it's hard to keep track. LoLz!

eBay Deprecates Wildcard Searches: the Implications By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com November 05, 2012 eBay sent an email to users informing them their saved searches would be changing on November 5, but one reader points out that the change will make it much harder, if not impossible, for him to...

LoLz! We hear that Project Cassini was incinerated before launch. Right here on Planet Earth. In a crackpipe.

Whatever it is you've been seeing is contrived, a PR mechanism which has a terminally decaying orbit. You may have t...

glitches glitches and more glitches... what a lovely sight. eBay Confirms Completed Item Glitch By: Ina Steiner Tue Nov 27 2012 21:52:12 Earlier this month, a seller reported in a Letter to the Editor that eBay changed the way users accessed Completed Items. "At first, it appeared that they h...

LoL! Is it ever broken!ebaYs Search is Hopelessly Broken

eBay Overstates Selling Prices in Search Results By: Ina Steiner In some cases, eBay is overstating the selling prices of items that have sold on its marketplace. The problem, which affects Completed Item searches, was revealed last month by an EcommerceBytes reader, but the apparent glitch has y...

The latest in ebaY tweaking. Probably just one of hundreds of tests they run at any given time? When you click the truncated part, it unhides the short description, (and you see the 'less' link) rather than opening the main listing etc, or whatever other idiotic things we've seen in the past. Still, th...

eBay Partially Rolls Out Cassini Next-Gen Search Engine Bizarre! The teasers: ...And by the way, this is no April Fools! and from the comments: ...Cassini sounds much like an Houdini... ^ That may be the most astute ebay cassini comment ever. wow just wow

ebaY Getting Frantic with Features: 'More Like This' and Search Follies Maybe frenetic is a better term? Ebay is hard at it again, making fairly significant site changes, apparently live in realtime from what I've seen. This is truly a[nother] case of ad ridere, or is that ridere ad? read the rest...

Wowie zowie! Why do they call it sleazebay? Here's another example. happened to notice a thread topic: Related searches bring up foul language! May 9, 2013 01:06 PMI did a search for ..... clara bow original If you look right under the search bar it says related searches... Read what it says next!!...

Mon June 3 2013 21:26:07 eBay CEO John Donahoe Opens Up About Search By: Ina Steiner It's not often you get to hear eBay executives talking about marketplace search, and the company doesn't share much with sellers, either. But last week eBay CEO John Donahoe talked about eBay's progress on search bef...

Yet another wow just wow episode! Cutting to the quick, when you search the person's items by title on ebay Australia, they at first appear, then vanish *POOF* right before your eyes. here are the terms mentioned later in the thread: '69 GTO JUDGE (FLAMED) XL SHIRT PONTIAC CAR FORD 4X4 PICKUP XL SHIRT F...

Thu June 20 2013 21:41:13Will Cassini's Arrival Save eBay Search? By: Ina Steiner (snip) ...There's a lot of misinformation about eBay's "next generation" search platform - some sellers believe eBay has already launched it fully on the site and have been blaming it for low traffic to t...

LoLz! Chalk up an extra large helping of fail over the entire Cssini project. What 3-4 years in the making? 400 programmers? ooooh, secrets, big presentations etc... Nonstop fluff and PR BS all along the way? bwhahahahahahahaaaaa! In Search of Tech Cred, eBay Builds a New Engine for a New Identity...

It's turning into a real lollercoaster ride. More fun to watch from a safe distance, and without need of barfbag. eBay's Hugh Williams Explains Cassini Search, Part One

Commandant Cassini Hugh Williams blog, the latest entry: (snip) Cassini in 2013 and beyond We'll begin working on making Cassini the default search engine in other major markets later in the year. We're beginning to test it in the UK, and we'll work on Germany soon too. There's also a ton of logistic...

wowsers! If this isn't a huge tell, (and huge crime) nothing is. You've got to see it to believe it (or maybe not

) we can only hope this gets picked up by places like ecommercebytes and other, bigger journalistic or consumer protection oriented websites, if not some Gov't entities as well...

eBay Grants Itself Permission to Hide Listings in Search Results By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com September 12, 2013 eBay finally granted itself permission to do what it's likely been itching to do for a long time: hide listings it deems unworthy for unspecified reasons from showing up in search...

eBay Sellers Theorize on Reasons for Low Sales (there's a link in there to the blog, where it looks even more ridiculous, all things considered.)

The rampage of destruction continues at ebaY!ebaY Removes Advanced Search by Bidder Feature Following closely on the heels of removing a key feedback/visibility feature, ebaY has now killed off the ability to search by bidder, for both active and completed listings. More at link ^

Good thing they have press releases for this, otherwise people may not even find it. Never showed up repeatedly searching every which way. Try it (or any given item) yourselves. David Oritz Ebay Beard Ball Auction Highlights Hidden Listings

eBay's Latest Search Technologies Deliver More Targeted Results Going over the ebay Cassini search architect Hugh Williams departure from ebay, and posts I had linked to there, I noticed the very first mention of the term Cassini, for whatever reason, seems to have vanished from the interwebz. A...

Good ol' sleazebay! What next? rotflmao Sun Dec 29 2013 19:42:03 eBay Practice of Displaying Unsold Listing as Sold Is Deceiving By: Reader "...I was surprised to find that all of my listings that I ended showed up in this search and they were marked green indicating that they had sold for tha...

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Google Amazon ebaY search Google Preps Product Search Overhaul to Battle Amazon, eBay (Preview)	CAPP	0	1712	Nov 5, 2010 by budnonymous
Friday, November 05, 2010 7:50 AM/EST Google Preps Product Search Overhaul to Battle Amazon, eBay Google is reportedly close to releasing a refreshed Google Product Search service leveraging the technology it acquired from Like.com, which it picked up in August. Like.com makes a visual search e...
Donahoe sarcasm image search tweak Donahoe is a Tweaker (Preview)	CAPP	0	1468	Jul 23, 2010 by budnonymous
Striving for the superlative failure! from eBay Announces Second-Quarter Financial Results for 2010 By: Ina Steiner Wed July 21 2010 16:20:58 'Update: In a conference call on Wednesday afternoon, eBay told analysts it would tweak U.S. search, and that it would launch new "tailored shoppin...
ebaY finding search best match experiments coding policies ebaY Finding Treatment 51 (Preview)	CAPP	0	1806	Mar 13, 2011 by budnonymous
Searching ebaY for some collectible stuff, I saw what may be some search-related stray code sticking out of ebaY's pages once or twice, but not everytime. I think the other time it showed different 'finding treatments' listed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us I wonder what would happen if a restauran...
ebay fail search finding Cappnonymous video sarcasumentary More ebaY Search & Category Fail (Preview)	CAPP	0	1820	Feb 12, 2010 by budnonymous
More ebaY Search & Category Fail
paypal outage fail loss Cappnonymous video documentary search finding Outage Costs PayPal Users Up To $32 Million -- Report (EBAY) (Preview)	CAPP	2	2005	Nov 25, 2009 by budnonymous
Outage Costs PayPal Users Up To $32 Million -- Report (EBAY) The picture alone is worth a click. I bet they go down again or have some other troubles. Soon.
forums censorship rolling blackouts pink livechat livehelp 5 days straight finding geoclustering search visibility best match ebaY Site in meltdown - Bigtime. - Deleted admission by ebay Live Chat Rep (Preview)	CAPP	5	5766	Jun 15, 2011 by budnonymous
Having a look over at sleazebay it appears a monumental scam/scandal is , and has been going on for one full month at least. Sellers report extrememly low page views and sales. In addition, more talk and evidence of "rolling blackouts", unannounced search beta testing, and the biggest te...
ebay best match finding search beta testing fail Looks like ebaY is playing with search again (Preview)	CAPP	2	1624	Aug 20, 2011 by budnonymous
Have a look. Note the emptiness of the right hand area... Uploaded with ImageShack.us I did't get a screenshot, but when you hover over the listing area, a balloon type message fades in advising you to click for details, whereupon a tall skinny column opens in the far right (empty) area of the screen wi...
ebay lawsuit class action featured plus best match finding search bug glitch Class Claims EBay Ad Program Flopped (Preview)	CAPP	0	1773	Jan 26, 2012 by budnonymous
ebaY racking up the lawsuits... Class Claims EBay Ad Program Flopped Wednesday, January 25, 2012Last Update: 11:40 AM PT SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - EBay didn't deliver on its promises to sellers who paid $39.95 for its "Featured Plus!" service that was supposed to bump their ads to...
ebay search finding glitch limits snafu best match fail what the he// is going on with this search (Preview)	CAPP	0	1727	Jan 30, 2012 by budnonymous
verrry interestink... what the he// is going on with this search Jan 30, 2012 04:37 AM Reply i was going through and searching for some knives i went through 51 pages with 200 on each page, when i went to go to page 52 this pops up. so are you only allowed to view a certain amount of items. i have tr...
ebay fail PR fluff ads listings search finding eBay Tests Ads in Sellers Listings on US Site (Preview)	CAPP	1	2075	Feb 13, 2012 by budnonymous
from eBay Tests Ads in Sellers Listings on US Site I see this: "Through the extensive inventory provided by our sellers, buyers have tremendous opportunity to find exactly what they are looking for," Hoff said. "In those rare instances where the item is not available on eBay, we wa...
search finding falsehood snafu PR fail eBay Listens to Customers, Retires Old Search Engine (Preview)	CAPP	2	1961	Mar 14, 2012 by budnonymous
eBay Listens to Customers, Retires Old Search Engine Skipping straight to the punch line: "At least eBay's management is for once admitting that they are listening to users." I believe this is the same search technology which made ebay express what IT is today.
search finding best match glitch snafu "Best Match" down? seems to be strictly "time left" (Preview)	CAPP	0	1476	Mar 16, 2012 by budnonymous
"Best Match" down? seems to be strictly "time left" Uploaded with ImageShack.us So the one thing people complain most about, and quite arguably one of the the roots of destruction of ebay (as it was for ebay express) breaks down and gets corrected in record time. Meanwhile......
ebay search finding rolling blackouts geoclustering Seller Shows Strange Traffic Pattern on eBay (Preview)	CAPP	0	1655	May 9, 2012 by budnonymous
Seller Shows Strange Traffic Pattern on eBay By: Ina Steiner Wed May 9 2012 10:23:42 eBay sellers have talked for years about rolling blackouts, "tap-on-tap-off" visibility, "rolling-region" visibility and other strange phenomenon that they say lead to odd sales patter...
ebay half.com search listings eBay Ejects Half.com Listings (Preview)	CAPP	0	1606	Oct 9, 2012 by budnonymous
Another fly-by-night, shady, spur of the moment policy change. eBay Ejects Half.com Listings
ebay cassini search eBay: All Style, No Substance (Preview)	CAPP	1	1619	Oct 29, 2012 by budnonymous
eBay: All Style, No Substance Ebay has been taking quite a flogging lately over the obviously failing Cassini project and some of the related search policies/features, from auction-ecommerce-bytes. I think the fun starts here, but there's so much it's hard to keep track. LoLz!
ebay search finding wildcard asterisk eBay Deprecates Wildcard Searches: the Implications (Preview)	CAPP	1	1602	Nov 6, 2012 by budnonymous
eBay Deprecates Wildcard Searches: the Implications By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com November 05, 2012 eBay sent an email to users informing them their saved searches would be changing on November 5, but one reader points out that the change will make it much harder, if not impossible, for him to...
ebay search finding Cassini Tonight's Inside Joke: Project Cassini (Preview)	CAPP	0	2525	Nov 11, 2012 by budnonymous
LoLz! We hear that Project Cassini was incinerated before launch. Right here on Planet Earth. In a crackpipe. Whatever it is you've been seeing is contrived, a PR mechanism which has a terminally decaying orbit. You may have t...
ebay search finding glitch completed eBay Confirms Completed Item Glitch (Preview)	CAPP	0	1283	Nov 30, 2012 by budnonymous
glitches glitches and more glitches... what a lovely sight. eBay Confirms Completed Item Glitch By: Ina Steiner Tue Nov 27 2012 21:52:12 Earlier this month, a seller reported in a Letter to the Editor that eBay changed the way users accessed Completed Items. "At first, it appeared that they h...
ebay Cassini search finding glitch tweaking ebaY’s Search is Hopelessly Broken (Preview)	CAPP	13	8308	Jan 18, 2014 by RichVernadeau
LoL! Is it ever broken!ebaYs Search is Hopelessly Broken
ebay completed best offer search change policies eBay Overstates Selling Prices in Search Results (Preview)	CAPP	2	1660	Jan 19, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay Overstates Selling Prices in Search Results By: Ina Steiner In some cases, eBay is overstating the selling prices of items that have sold on its marketplace. The problem, which affects Completed Item searches, was revealed last month by an EcommerceBytes reader, but the apparent glitch has y...
ebay search finding features tweaking ebaY search results now showing truncated descriptions (Preview)	CAPP	0	1339	Nov 22, 2013 by budnonymous
The latest in ebaY tweaking. Probably just one of hundreds of tests they run at any given time? When you click the truncated part, it unhides the short description, (and you see the 'less' link) rather than opening the main listing etc, or whatever other idiotic things we've seen in the past. Still, th...
cassini search finding fluff eBay Partially Rolls Out Cassini Next-Gen Search Engine (Preview)	CAPP	0	1380	Apr 1, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay Partially Rolls Out Cassini Next-Gen Search Engine Bizarre! The teasers: *...And by the way, this is no April Fools!* and from the comments: *...Cassini sounds much like an Houdini...* ^ That may be the most astute ebay cassini comment ever. wow just wow
ebay search Cassini listings ads more like this features tweaking ebaY Getting Frantic with Features: 'More Like This and Search Follies (Preview)	CAPP	1	1858	May 9, 2013 by budnonymous
ebaY Getting Frantic with Features: 'More Like This' and Search Follies Maybe frenetic is a better term? Ebay is hard at it again, making fairly significant site changes, apparently live in realtime from what I've seen. This is truly a[nother] case of ad ridere, or is that ridere ad? read the rest...
ebay search finding fail ebaY Search Fail: Related Terms (Preview)	CAPP	0	1274	May 9, 2013 by budnonymous
Wowie zowie! Why do they call it sleazebay? Here's another example. happened to notice a thread topic: Related searches bring up foul language! May 9, 2013 01:06 PMI did a search for ..... clara bow original If you look right under the search bar it says related searches... Read what it says next!!...
ebay Donahoe Cassini search finding eBay CEO John Donahoe Opens Up About Search (Preview)	CAPP	2	1839	Sep 14, 2013 by budnonymous
Mon June 3 2013 21:26:07 eBay CEO John Donahoe Opens Up About Search By: Ina Steiner It's not often you get to hear eBay executives talking about marketplace search, and the company doesn't share much with sellers, either. But last week eBay CEO John Donahoe talked about eBay's progress on search bef...
ebay.au search finding glitch Listings on Austrailia site are gone (magically vanishing before your eyes!) (Preview)	CAPP	2	1387	Jun 17, 2013 by budnonymous
Yet another wow just wow episode! Cutting to the quick, when you search the person's items by title on ebay Australia, they at first appear, then vanish *POOF* right before your eyes. here are the terms mentioned later in the thread: '69 GTO JUDGE (FLAMED) XL SHIRT PONTIAC CAR FORD 4X4 PICKUP XL SHIRT F...
ebay search finding Cassini Will Cassini's Arrival Save eBay Search? (Preview)	CAPP	1	2705	Jun 22, 2013 by budnonymous
Thu June 20 2013 21:41:13Will Cassini's Arrival Save eBay Search? By: Ina Steiner (snip) ...There's a lot of misinformation about eBay's "next generation" search platform - some sellers believe eBay has already launched it fully on the site and have been blaming it for low traffic to t...
Cassini search finding launch Ebay’s Secret Cassini Launch (Preview)	CAPP	0	1529	Jun 27, 2013 by budnonymous
LoLz! Chalk up an extra large helping of fail over the entire Cssini project. What 3-4 years in the making? 400 programmers? ooooh, secrets, big presentations etc... Nonstop fluff and PR BS all along the way? bwhahahahahahahaaaaa! In Search of Tech Cred, eBay Builds a New Engine for a New Identity...
ebay Cassini search finding tweaking Hugh Williams eBay's Hugh Williams Explains Cassini Search, Part One (Preview)	CAPP	3	1664	Jul 3, 2013 by budnonymous
It's turning into a real lollercoaster ride. More fun to watch from a safe distance, and without need of barfbag. eBay's Hugh Williams Explains Cassini Search, Part One
Cassini Germany search finding Cassini Coming to Germany Soon (Preview)	CAPP	0	1752	Jul 19, 2013 by budnonymous
Commandant Cassini Hugh Williams blog, the latest entry: (snip) Cassini in 2013 and beyond We'll begin working on making Cassini the default search engine in other major markets later in the year. We're beginning to test it in the UK, and we'll work on Germany soon too. There's also a ton of logistic...
ebay search Cassini visibilty test Ebay Test: Hide Listings from Search (Preview)	CAPP	0	1398	Aug 4, 2013 by budnonymous
wowsers! If this isn't a huge tell, (and huge crime) nothing is. You've got to see it to believe it (or maybe not ) we can only hope this gets picked up by places like ecommercebytes and other, bigger journalistic or consumer protection oriented websites, if not some Gov't entities as well...
ebay User Agreement Cassini search finding visibility rolling blackouts video eBay Grants Itself Permission to Hide Listings in Search Results (Preview)	CAPP	11	2610	Oct 15, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay Grants Itself Permission to Hide Listings in Search Results By Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes.com September 12, 2013 eBay finally granted itself permission to do what it's likely been itching to do for a long time: hide listings it deems unworthy for unspecified reasons from showing up in search...
ebay Cassini search finding Rolling Blackouts eBay Sellers Theorize on Reasons for Low Sales (Preview)	CAPP	6	2590	Nov 16, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay Sellers Theorize on Reasons for Low Sales (there's a link in there to the blog, where it looks even more ridiculous, all things considered.)
ebay search finding bidders advanced search visibility ebaY Removes Advanced Search by Bidder Feature (Preview)	CAPP	1	1719	Oct 22, 2013 by budnonymous
The rampage of destruction continues at ebaY!ebaY Removes Advanced Search by Bidder Feature Following closely on the heels of removing a key feedback/visibility feature, ebaY has now killed off the ability to search by bidder, for both active and completed listings. More at link ^
David Oritz ebay Beard Ball charity Cassini search finding David Oritz Ebay Beard Ball Auction Highlights Hidden Listings (Preview)	CAPP	0	1484	Nov 22, 2013 by budnonymous
Good thing they have press releases for this, otherwise people may not even find it. Never showed up repeatedly searching every which way. Try it (or any given item) yourselves. David Oritz Ebay Beard Ball Auction Highlights Hidden Listings
ebay Cassini Hugh Williams PR search archives history eBay’s Latest Search Technologies Deliver More Targeted Results (Preview)	CAPP	0	1421	Dec 20, 2013 by budnonymous
eBay's Latest Search Technologies Deliver More Targeted Results Going over the ebay Cassini search architect Hugh Williams departure from ebay, and posts I had linked to there, I noticed the very first mention of the term Cassini, for whatever reason, seems to have vanished from the interwebz. A...
ebay search sold items pricing falsehood eBay Practice of Displaying Unsold Listing as Sold Is Deceiving (Preview)	CAPP	0	1372	Jan 1, 2014 by budnonymous
Good ol' sleazebay! What next? rotflmao Sun Dec 29 2013 19:42:03 eBay Practice of Displaying Unsold Listing as Sold Is Deceiving By: Reader "...I was surprised to find that all of my listings that I ended showed up in this search and they were marked green indicating that they had sold for tha...