Metodo de busqueda

[molinillo21]

Soy nueva en ebay, y se que hay metodos para mejorar la busqueda como el " - " delante de auqelo que quieres omitir, sabe alguien que mas simbolos se pueden usar para la búsqueda? llevo un rato mirando el foro y no veo nada relacionado.

gracias por la respuesta

[softmanta]

Control Fuzzy Searches


Choose when and how plurals and variations of your search terms are used in searches.

For the most part, eBay searches return only listings that match your search terms exactly. That is, if you search for possum, you won't necessarily retrieve the same results that you would in a search for opossum.

Historically, to perform a fuzzy search, you'd have to include all the variations of a word in the search box manually, like this:


(opossum,possum,apossoun)




To accommodate singular and plural variants of a word, you'd have to type something like this:


(antenna,antennas,antennae)




The OR search commanded by the use of parentheses  takes care of this nicely. But it's not always necessary.

All eBay searches automatically include common plurals and a few alternate spellings of words. For instance, a search for antenna will also yield results matching antennas rendering the use of an OR search or wildcards redundant in this case. The same is true for lens and lenses, as well as watch and watches. (The equivalency of plurals doesn't necessarily carry over to phrase searches. See "Use Keywords Effectively"  for an example.)

Plurals aren't the only variations included in fuzzy searches; search for spiderman and you'll also get listings that match spider-man. Likewise, t-shirt and tshirt are considered equivalent, as are Mr. T and Mr T.

Unfortunately, eBay's support for fuzzy searches is a little unreliable and difficult to predict; sometimes the results include plurals and sometimes they don't. While a search for tire yields the same results as a search for tires, the same is not true for tyre or tyres. Bad spellers will be sad to learn that paisly is not the same as paisley. And while eBay equates phone with phones, a telephone is still an entirely different animal.

Rather than relying on the whims of eBay's search engine, there's an easy way to test any particular variant. Just perform two searches: one for the singular version, and another for the plural (e.g., harmonica and harmonicas). Then, compare the number of items found; if they're the same, then eBay considers the two terms to be equivalent. (Since listings start and end all the time, the totals may change slightly; just repeat the search to confirm.) This tip is particularly useful if you're a seller trying to decide whether or not you need to include multiple variations of a term in your listing title .






The reason that eBay's fuzzy searches may seem inconsistent is that matches are based on a hand-selected dictionary of common variations and plurals, and eBay appears to be constantly revising these definitions. As the feature evolves, new matches may be added to the list while others proven to be troublesome may be removed. In an effort to keep fuzzy searches as unobtrusive as possible, though, extreme variants, such as "potato" and "tater" are unlikely to ever make the cut.

Search, Literally
Of course, the inclusion of fuzzy variations isn't always desirable. For instance, if you're looking for rooftop antennas for a Pennsylvania Railroad PA-1 locomotive (or a model of one), you wouldn't so much be interested in a book discussing the antennae of Pennsylvania cockroaches. To force eBay to search only for exact matches of words, enclose such terms in quotation marks, like this:


pennsylvania "antennas"




which is practically equivalent to:


pennsylvania antennas -antennae




Whether the quotes will be necessary, or whether you'll need to manually include variations (using parentheses), will depend on the particular search you're trying to perform.

Punctuation
To simplify searches that would otherwise require very cumbersome search phrases, nearly all forms of punctuation are considered equivalent to spaces in eBay searches. For instance, say you're looking for a 1:43-scale model car; you might expect to have to type the following:


car (1/43,1\43,1:43)




Instead, all you would need to type is:


car 1/43




where the 1/43 term will match "1 43", 1:43, 1;43, 1\43, 1-43, 1.43, 1!43, 1@43, 1#43, 1$43, 1%43, 1^43, 1&43, 1_43, 1=43, 1+43, and 1~43.

Now, say the aforementioned car is a 1968 Ford GT 40; the appropriate search phrase might then be:


(gt40,gt-40) 1/43




Here, the 1/43 catches all appropriate variants, but an OR search  is still required for both versions of the car name; although gt-40 is equivalent to "gt 40", it won't match gt40 (without any space or punctuation). This tactic is often necessary when searching for product model numbers, since most sellers aren't terribly diligent about dashes and other punctuation. For instance, if you're searching for the Sony XDP-4000X digital signal processor, you'll want to use something like this:


(xdp4000x,xdp-4000x)




Or, better yet:


(xdp4000x,xdp-4000x,xdp4000,xdp-4000)




since sellers frequently drop single letters that follow strings of numbers (like the trailing x here) for reasons that are not entirely clear. As you can imagine, eBay won't find these variants for you. Of course, you could also simplify the search with wildcards:


(xdp4000*,xdp-4000*)




Now, punctuation doesn't fall under the same rules as variations and plurals, meaning that you wouldn't be able to use quotation marks to restrict your search to include only desired variations, as discussed earlier in this hack. For instance, a search for:


"gt-40"




won't exclude variants gt/40 or gt:40. This means that the two terms in this search:


gt-40 -gt/40




will cancel each other out, and you'll always get "0 items found" as a result. Of course, if you're trying to curb your spending on model cars, this type of "search sabotage" might be just the thing you need to save yourself a few bucks.