[ARC5] Question about finding our treasures on eBay...

[john rose]

One possibility, your first search was in a category, i.e. industrial and manufacturing, the second in another or was expanded to 'all categories'.

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> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 16:23:59 -0700
> From: jfor at quikus.com
> To: kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> CC: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Question about finding our treasures on eBay...
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> Yes, the singular/plural thing is very brain damaged, but it does not
> address the issue raised in my post, namely how can adding a restriction
> to a search string increase the number of hits.
>
> Best,
>
> -John
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>> On 8 Aug 2013 at 13:02, J. Forster wrote:
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>>> Why?
>>>
>>> My 2nd string is intended to return all capacitors, except ceramic.
>>>
>>> capacitor -ceramic is supposed to mean "capacitor AND NOT ceramic"
>>>
>>> It gets interpreted as something like "capacitors OR ceramic".
>>>
>>> The way the eBay strings should be parsed is:
>>>
>>> Word1 Word2 = Word1 AND Word2
>>> Word1 -Word2 = Word1 AND NOT Word2
>>> (Word1,Word2) = Word1 OR Word2
>>
>> Well, perhaps the problem is that Evil-bays search function views -ceramic
>> and -ceramics as two different search criteria.
>>
>> In other words, it doesn't recognize "ceramic" as "polyCERAMICs" as any
>> normal search engine should. Furthermore, it sometimes decides there is a
>> difference between capitalized words and lower-case words...or letters.
>>
>> If you want to search for a plural word in an ad, you have to specify
>> plural.
>> Singular won't do it. And it won't recognize wild cards either.
>>
>> It is crap.
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
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