[ARC5] New eBay "feature" ... bad example choice

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Wed Jan 25 22:22:41 EST 2006


I chose unwisely on the example.

Try searching for:

prissteen

and your search will change to 'pristeen'

Sorry,
-John

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Warning...  eBay has a new "feature" (AKA bug)  they now run ALL search strings
through a spell checker. If you want to search for some word that is spelt
differently than their opinion or is not in their 'dictionary', you MUST enclose
it in  quotes e.g.: "wireles". is automatically converted to wireless This means
that all those carefully crafted search strings saved as bookmarks are not
necessarily any good any more.

Progress...  NOT !!

-John


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