eBay Sellers Gaming Best Match

[mandy]

Back in our eBay World, as you probably already know in March, eBay switched the search engine from a reverse chronological (aka 'ending first') system to a black box algorithm known as BestMatch.  BestMatch has many positive aspects and seems to be working as we've noted.

However, it only took about a month, but now we're hearing from sellers that are upset that other sellers are significantly gaming the system.  I received a great example of this from a long-time reader and video game seller today that blew me away....

full article: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_str...e-lea.html

[BellisimaJ.]

Overall this title earns a 40% score and the words that eBay likes are: "new 5 and games"
eBay gives zero juice to nintendo, wii, and so those are somewhat wasted words in the world of BestMatch.

What a crock, and way to provide a bad buyer experience, eBay!

[bargainbloodhound]

Overall this title earns a 40% score and the words that eBay likes are: "new 5 and games"
eBay gives zero juice to nintendo, wii

If the seller had included L@@K! in the title it probably would have earned a 70% score.  :twistedevil: . Who is the idiot who decided that new should have more weight in search results than nintendo and wii?