Why are Best-match search results so bloated? | Buying

brandonsvsu · 2024-11-02T22:27:01.128000Z

Ebay's search engine has become basically useless. It completely ignores what I type into the search box and gives me result after result that simply don't match at all what I'm looking from. It is especially bad looking for computer parts. The search engine now could care less if you type in a specific part or part number - it gives you numerous results that literally are not a match. And they have the nerve to call it "best match"? I've been on ebay since the early 2000's and it never used to be this way. I used to have no problem finding what I'm looking for. Also, I notice that whenever I change from best match to sort by newly listed, the number of results drops by sometimes upwards of 90 percent. I'll get several hundred best match results, then change sort order and it might fall to 15. And these 15 are actually much closer of a match to what I'm looking for.

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