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Search Engine Failures

Search Engine Failures since it was broken a few years ago
When Excluding a word from a search by putting a minus sign in front of it
Which is what Advanced Search does
The results are wrong, usually eliminating a lot of items it should not
For Example, try this one ( it's good because not too many items to look at )
Search for Northface Ski Suit,   Today I get 57 results
There happen to be 15 with the word "Women" and 42 without
Go to Advanced Search and Exclude "Women"
The result is 4 items
This is a serious problem
Particularly for saved Searches which need to discriminate to limit the emailed results
This is a separate problem of getting results that don't match the Search
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Search Engine Failures

I searched for "Bargain Hunt Golden Gavel" and got TWO hits, neither of which had ANYTHING to do with any of the words in my search!
It seems to pick items at random, NOTHING to do with what is entered.
eBay has become a joke. The website is DREADFUL, and all the useful content has been taken out for this last website redesign, which is primarily aimed at smartphone users.
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