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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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