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Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
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lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:26:47 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Ran Talbott writes:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:53:22, "richard marchetti" • <blueofnoon@aol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have noticed that eBay doesn't go very far back in time at all
> > with this service any longer -- I can only assume that they perceived • existing
> > auction results as limiting the price potential of auctions currently • underway.
> 
> 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.
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 two months later.



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  Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 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"
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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