It would seem to me that eBay have put restrictions on search terms to reduce
the volume of results.
I don't know what context you are using these terms in but for me I found I
wanted to be get a broad result with a short name query (if that makes sense).
But given that there several hundred thousand items on any given day it perhaps
makes sense to limit wildcards and the like to reduce the load on their system.
Dan.
----- Original Message -----
From: tOM Trottier <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 4:19 pm
Subject: Re: [OM] eBay search problems
> Haven't noticed that.
>
> "@0..." used to mean "one of ...."
> "@1..." used to mean "two of ...."
> "@2..." used to mean "three of ...."
> and so on. That doesn't work any more.
>
> Also, it seems to quit when too many search TERMS are used,
> positive or
> negative.
>
> From power failure to imagination failure....
> tOM
>
> On Sunday, August 17, 2003 at 16:00
> fred42@xxxxxxxxx <> wrote:
>
> > Tom,
> >
> > By this are you referring to the changes re wildcards? I found that
> > you can no longer search using a wildcard on just a single
> number. So
> > a search for OM 2* would have the 2 removed (note the space between
> > the OM and the 2). And the same is true of two letter searches
> such as
> > OM* . I have written to eBay regarding this problem and got no
> > response. It just seem to have been introduced recently without
> > explaination as to why it was necessary. Obviously it hinders
> the more
> > general searches for all OM bodies say. But that said there is often
> > only 500 or so listings so work through each week in the Olympus SLR
> > 35mm category.
> >
> > Dan.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: tOM Trottier <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:59 am
> > Subject: [OM] eBay search problems
> >
> > > Anybody else having search problems?
> > >
> > > It seems ebay has deleted support for @1, @2 etc operators and
> > > quits when
> > > searches turn up too many items.
> > >
> > > tOM
>
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