EB's New Search Patent - Includes Factors Effecting Search

dallis · #1 09-22-2017

Offsite link to EB's 'search patent' and factors they consider important in how and where you end up in search...

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog...506019578.html

phaz0rz · #2 09-22-2017

I think I found a typo in their article lol.

Quote:

As indicated under the description of Business Rules, eBay has wielded carrots and sticks to encourage sellers to offer free shipping. It's worth nothing that lately eBay has been doing likewise to encourage sellers to offer generous returns policies.

Worth nothing? More likely worth "noting".

Anyway, for this to be new it sure sounds a whole lot like "cassini". Seller composite scoring, feedback impacting listing rank, turnover rate impacting sales (which is a catch 22 IMO), etc. I don't really see anything new.

dallis · #3 09-22-2017

I saw that typo, laughed a lot too.

It fits what I've deduced over the years from watching it work.

People always seem to wonder, though.