I was wondering how long it would take Ebay to catch on to the hoopla and add some new search functionality to its offering. I confess that I'm not an Ebay user but I found myself on their site today and decided to test the search when I noticed a cool and accurate autocomplete menu drop down and offer me some great search suggestions. I checked out Ebay's blog and noticed the following update on the tweaking of its search engine (as per August 8, 2008)
Two new features are coming to search: search suggestions and a new Refine Your Search.
Search suggestions means that the search box will offer suggestions to help you complete your query as you type. The search suggestions feature will make searching faster and easier than ever. If you don’t like it, though, don’t worry, you can always turn suggestions off.
The changes to Refine Your Search will make it easier to find and select options like 'Search including Title & Item Description' and show only 'Auctions'.
More detail on the changes will be available soon.
Who knows? Maybe Ebay execs have been reading this blog and noting how helpful search suggestions are to the overall search experience, and how it is an especially helpful feature for e-commerce sites (see this post, or this one, or this one ; ).
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