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

[J. Forster]

I never use category searches.

-John

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> 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...
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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