@tobaccocardyahoo wrote:
I am confident that whatever the changes are in the search results they will not eliminate sponsored ads or promotion, and the number of sellers complaining about the new search will be as large or larger as they have been now and in the past.
Somebody wins and somebody loses. Hopefully the new search will not discourage too many buyers.
Certainly a possibility, mobile devices taking over most folks Internet usage has been a big problem for years. See you're average web page has basically three distinctive things. There is of course the HTML Markup which the web was founded upon Hypertext Markup Language. To get much anything other than that required using Flash which had an entire "C" like language called Actionscript as its engine.
Then came Cascading Style Sheets "CSS" which served to "Style" the HTML outputs (elements), sit in a separated file or embedded into the HTML page. Javascript a computer language embedded into the web browser was also emerging. Now, these three dominate web based output. Asynchronous Javascript allows the webpage you're looking at with you're browser to make calls to webserver to dynamically insert aka: inject content and can target basically anything from the HTML to the Styling. It all affords a great deal of versatility bit comes with issues because of all the varied device types and real-estate. Whilst a cellphone in pixel resolution match of even exceed that of a 1080P TV, 1080P PC monitor or laptop its physically ever so small. So ya' look at a webpage on PC, oh that's lovely yet the exact same page on the cellphone look the same but everything so small cant even read it. Why the "Expand" gesture on cellphones came to be.
Now, the browsers real-estate can be known by the HTML page, the Style Sheet is the guide to differing resolution devices. The buzz for years now has been "Responsive Web Pages" so the Style Sheet defines real-estate on the device basically. Thus not having to have individual assets for every possible incarnation of device. For years now there have been CSS Frameworks towards Page Layout, Bootstrap which came from Twitter, Foundation is another created by folks at Facebook, there are literal plethora's of these page layout frameworks that handle device real-estate along with device anomalies. In other words this web browser on PC, has issues as compared to Apples mobile browser or Chrome on Android when it comes to the rendered outputs. This allows consistent predictable outputs across device independence versus having to separate assets for each type device occurrence.
All that said and done sounds all wondrous from an engineering aspect, maintain these assets versus a plethora of assets towards each type device occurrence. Yet, the problem still remains, the physical viewable real estate and with masses of list of based data got problems on these tiny devices. A single mistaken gesture on the cellphone results in a click versus a scroll for example.
I've no problem finding anything on eBay with my PC in a traditional drill down process and it feels perfectly natural... On a cellphone, well I just loath it. It lends itself to an APP, sidenote I heard few days back TEMU's APP is the #1 downloaded commerce APP going albeit no clue if thats true. Hmmm...
Now with an APP for eBay have several problems. First is getting folks download it. Second is so very many aspects of such an APP. Temu only has to worry about buyer usage not sellers. Amazon by literal nature of product that sellers list against versus creating listings is already closer to a natural experience for phones and can closely mimic that of a PC, Tab, or Laptop.
I've eBays APP on my phone, I check see if I've offers, need make an offer or is anything sold. Other than that I find extremely painful in compare to my PC whether trying use it to list or shop. I find cellphone painful to shop with just about anyplace but here in all honesty is the most painful.
The APP needs to be a very different deal due to the diversity of data and I'm not sure what that looks like. IMHO eBay ought be reaching out to folks who are both engineers and site users especially focal towards the shopping experience. That is to say IDEAS and refine on those ideas. Refine the living crud out of the mobile shopping experience and push the app to buyers bigtime.
Yet, same time refining that mobile shopping experience towards better focal results and the "Fuzzy" leaves the search by sheer nature. The Fuzzy leaves the search and sellers gonna be screaming more than they do now. "I'm getting even less impressions! Leave it to eBay to do that! They just want me pay more for promoted!" No not at all, you're getting exactly what you all asked for. You think the shopper is smart enough to enter effective searches, they are not, they never have been.
Its like folks think Google has one algorithm covering all searches. So far from that make one heads spin. Even back in the days of Northern Lights, Lyco's on and on there were plethora's of cleansing algorithms, selector algorithms that just try and select other algorithms to use as search algorithms. People can and do type just about anything into a search. AI is the promise of binding query's and query types against algorithms that make the "More sane" towards cleansed, detailed, well ordered normalized databases. Its been a problem with enormous amounts of information for a HUGE long time and that's why closest guarded secrets in these realms of information are search engines and database constructs etc. I'd wager to say statistically mechanisms of measure of searching make Wallstreet statistics appear as child play.
This is a marketplace, how many purchases occur due to ancillary exposures? I'm searching to buy this, but oh wow, look at that, and that! That's how people shop! I go into the grocer to get Lettuce and Broccoli and come out with Muffins and Coffee etc. I go to Target for a few shirts and come out with this, that and the other thing. If I were not exposed to this, that and the other thing I'd not bought them!
So transfer that experience to a cellphone tiny screen. "I found exactly what I want... I never saw all that other stuff that I may well have bought. I'm happy! My pocket still has money in it!"
Seller: "How come my stuff is getting even less exposure than it did!"
mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
