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Re: Help: ebaY Search Weirdness??
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Date: 
Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:35:34 GMT
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"Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatico.deletethisspamblock.ca> wrote in
message news:G6Czu6.A8q@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.market.auction, John Radtke writes:
> > 
> > I wouldn't worry about your machine.  The item I mentioned earlier as • being
> > missing from completed searches is also from the 24th.  It is still • missing
> > even though older and now more recent items as well appear in the search.
> > The item is stil out there - just not indexed the way it used to be.  For
> > what it's worth, my vote is that it is them, not you.
> 
> 
> In trying to sort this mess out so that I can actually see recent
> auction listings, I went through every single directory on my
> machine and deleted anything that looked like a temporary or
> otherwise unneeded file.  I deleted all caches, cookies,
> temp internet files, garbage application data, history
> data, "recent files", etc., etc.  And I even updated MSIE
> to the latest version of 5.01 (too long to download 5.5).
> 
> It still doesn't work.
> 
> The only pattern I am seeing is that after I have used one
> specific combination of search terms and settings on ebay,
> the data gets permanently stuck on those results.  I can go
> back and re-run that same search 18 million times (I have
> tested this), and the search results will not be updated.  The
> page date at the bottom is still stuck at the time when I
> first did that search.
> 
> I can't for the life of me figure out where MSIE is pulling
> all these bleedin' search results from.  And with lots of
> returned hits for the searches, sometimes each page of
> results are different.  With new listings first, page 1
> may be for the 28th, page 2 for the 23rd, page 3 for the
> 28th again,...  Even each flippin' page (thus each search
> url) has its own unique memory of what it feels like showing.
> @!%##^#!&*@!!!!
> 
> ebay denies that any such data would ever get stored local
> onto their systems.  So if it's coming from mine, then where
> is it?  I wonder if it's burned into my swap file somehow,
> and actually survives reboots?  And I wonder if it's the
> complete data that gets stored, or just some pointer to
> specific listings in the ebay database?
> 
> I think it's time for a complete uninstall/re-install of
> the browser...
> 
> KDJ


Is your ISP caching it?  Do you have an alternate way to connect to the Net
to check?

Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com



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  Re: Help: ebaY Search Weirdness??
 
(...) I don't know, I never would've thought that the ISP would be caching. It's a very large nation-wide service operated by a branch of "the phone company". I don't know if that makes it more or less likely that they would be caching. Overlaid (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

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(...) In trying to sort this mess out so that I can actually see recent auction listings, I went through every single directory on my machine and deleted anything that looked like a temporary or otherwise unneeded file. I deleted all caches, (...) (26 years ago, 30-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.auction)

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