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Subject:	Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:52:51 GMT
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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. ebay is so huge that they're pushing the envelope on technical feasibility, so the decision to limit the archives may also have been much like the ones that govern retention on Usenet servers. Ran

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		Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
(...) <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)

		Re: Did anyone else get this? - "Buy The Brick"
(...) 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"
(...) Dan got one, i haven't finished going through my mail yet... if i get one, i can't decide if i would get one or spamcop.net it (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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