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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.
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 right category. It
would also make searches a lot easier to use.
Frank
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