New eBay "feature" ... bad example choice

From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 19:22:41 PST


I chose unwisely on the example.

Try searching for:

prissteen

and your search will change to 'pristeen'

Sorry,
-John

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Warning... eBay has a new "feature" (AKA bug) they now run ALL search strings
through a spell checker. If you want to search for some word that is spelt
differently than their opinion or is not in their 'dictionary', you MUST enclose
it in quotes e.g.: "wireles". is automatically converted to wireless This means
that all those carefully crafted search strings saved as bookmarks are not
necessarily any good any more.

Progress... NOT !!

-John



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