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 #830  by Audrius
 
Ebay has been testing its new Cassini search engine scheduled to be officially rolled out side-wide next year. The changes eBay will be implementing have the potential to be very disruptive both to sellers and to buyers.

Here are 10 things you should know about the changes that may be coming to eBay in 2013:

1) Right now, when you search for an item on eBay, you may get tens of thousands of results. eBay will be limiting search results to a fraction (hundreds) of what it returns today.

2) eBay will mine the text in item descriptions to gather additional product attributes to enrich its catalog and to help it bring back more relevant search results.

3) eBay will use behavioral data to make assumptions about product listings and about shoppers to filter and rank search results unique to each buyer.

4) eBay will let buyers personalize search results, by adjusting four factors - Trust, Value, Diversity and Relevance - and how important each one is to them.

5) eBay is mining the text of feedback comments to try and get a more accurate picture of buyer satisfaction and a seller's trustworthiness and performance. It will use such data in its search algorithm and risk models.

6) DSRs may still play a role in determining seller performance, but will not be used in the same form that you know them today.

7) eBay may implement Price ranges in buyer search, and place a listing's category tree directly in individual search results.

8) While today's Best Match algorithm uses 10s of factors to help it match listings to searches, Cassini's relevancy algorithm will use 100s of factors.

9) Personalization in search will include shoppers' past buying behavior.

10) eBay will move to a free listing model in most categories.
 #831  by Audrius
 
Ebay has changed the way your search results look.

You can show results in List view to see more listings per page, or select Picture gallery to see larger images of the items. Select either option, as illustrated below.
Search-results-view-options.jpg
I really like new and clean design, especially the Picture gallery view. Check it out here if you haven't seen it yet.

Do you like new search results look?
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 #832  by Audrius
 
Another, a very useful change is adding direct links to sold listings and completed listings, available on the search results page, as shown below.
sold-listings-vs-complete-listings.jpg
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