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FoulFoot
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 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:52 pm Post subject: Severe eBay change to search coming next week |
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From http://www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com/en/2012/10/wildcard-searches-no-longer-supported/
| Quote: | We’ve been receiving inquiries from some of you about the ability to use wildcard searches going forward in tools like the Finding API or in RSS Feeds. That functionality will no longer be supported after October 29, 2012. This functionality allowed users to include an asterisk with their keyword search that would include all spelling variations for an item. For example, a keyword search of “ip*” might include listings with “ipod, ipods, ipad, ipads, ipadd,” etc. in title in search results. eBay is no longer supporting wildcard searches because recent changes to how search works already takes into account many spelling variations, and it enables us to more efficiently deliver search results faster.
We acknowledge that this will cause significant inconvenience for some of you.
While we can’t change the deprecation of wildcard searches or the timetable that has been established by eBay Inc., we do apologize for our lack of proper communication regarding this change. We are looking into how this happened and are committed to improving how we communicate with our partners.
We thank you for your partnership and apologize for this inconvenience and the lack of notice. |
This company is really something. I hope their stock takes it in the shorts this Christmas.
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nev
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Yup - pretty crazy.
We'll see how it all shakes out. |
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wickmesh
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Quite bluntly, this is ****ing ridiculous.
Ebay are repeatedly demonstrating how to take a great product and ruin it  |
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memorezguy
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| Equally problematic is the way the new eBay search field on-site will CHANGE your input as you are typing! @!#$!@#$!@$% |
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