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Search Broken
Not sure what's going on with the search...but the last few days, I just watch relevant search items just disappear before my eyes....ridiculous. It's doing this across multiple OS platforms (windows & linux) and multiple browsers; chrome & mozilla. If I refresh the page and click fast enough before it disappears again I can sometimes get the link to open....but it's quite annoying....
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overclocker74
OP3 years agoJust a follow-up....but the issue seems to have cured itself. I didn't change anything and noticed last night that things were back to normal.
eburtonlab
Mentor3 years agoAre you using an ad blocker? If so, try disabling it and see if the items that disappear remain when you reload the page.
In some situations an ad blocker may be blocking sponsored listings.
If you use a sort order other than "Best Match" then those same sponsored listings should appear elsewhere in the search order as organic (non-sponsored) listings.
overclocker74
OP3 years agoYes, I am using an adblocker....and won't turn that off for anyone. This was never a problem before....ebay without the adblocker is a cesspool of unrelated trash ads and bandwidth wasters; irrelevant to searches. Sad they're choosing to filter searches / search results because folks don't want to see the unrelated junk.....but I guess it is what it is....sad for sellers though. 😞
eburtonlab
Mentor3 years agoeBay and the various ad blockers are in a constant arms-race over sponsored listings. Ad blockers figure out a rule that blocks sponsored listings, and eBay changes how sponsored listings display to get around the block.
If you want to know if what you are seeing is being caused by your ad blocker, try temporarily disabling your ad blocker to see if the item appears and remains when you search.
If you search using a sort other than "Best Match", the sponsored listings that appear should also have matching organic (non-sponsored) listings that appear somewhere in the sort order.
If you are using "Best Match" only one version of each listing, either sponsored or organic, may appear; whichever sorts higher in the list may appear, and the other version may be suppressed by the sort. In other sorts, both versions should appear, unless things have changed recently.
So "Best Match" may suppress the organic version, and your ad blocker may block the sponsored version.
There may be a setting change you can make in your ad blocker to avoid blocking sponsored listings. If your ad blocker has an "Anti-circumvention" list (Ad Block), or "ABP" list (Ad Block Plus), try disabling that. In the past those filters affected sponsored listings at various times.