 | | Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick" —Ran Talbott
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| | | (...) I think it's a lot more likely that the sheer size of the database was making searches a *lot* slower (causing customer frustration), and greatly increasing their costs without doing much to increase profits. ebay is so huge that they're (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick" —Steve Waibel
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| | | | | (...) <blueofnoon@aol.com> (...) existing (...) underway. (...) What is funny is that the pages are still there you just can't search to find them. I have scrapbooked search result pages and still been able to view the lots that they contain over (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | | Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick" —Ran Talbott
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| | | | | | (...) Not surprising, if you know a little about the guts of systems like that: it's very cheap to do "get record # 899542", but expensive to do "search 5 gigabytes of information about 2 million auctions, and see if any of the descriptions (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | | | | Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick" —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) existing (...) underway. (...) One thing they could do to make the database and searches more manageable would be to actually break the database into smaller databases by category. This would really encourage people to put their stuff in the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) It would also encourage people to deliberately mis-categorize their wares, if they thought they could reach a larger audience. Steve (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | | | | | Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick" —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) would (...) Well, their TOS specifically addresses mis-categorization. In fact, I've been tempted to invoke this, it specifically addresses, and disallows things like "Mega Bloks set, just like LEGO". By a strict reading of their TOS in fact, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.dear-lego)
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