STORE OWNERS BOYCOTT EBAY IN PROTEST

[BellisimaJ.]

This has been well-orchestrated to maximize eBay's profit.  They'll get fees for those in denial until they can no longer go on.

Unfortunately, you are right, Lynda. And in the process, many of them will be without an income. I frequently fall asleep at night wondering how Meg and Bill sleep knowing how many lives they are impacting in such a negative way.

If they are still able to enjoy the 1000 thread count sheets they sleep on and the maid who turns those sheets down in the evening.Or the 10k custom Armani's  that Bill puts on in the am or the ugly but expensive  suits that  Meg wears.

Too bad money doesn't buy taste or ethics.

[waterdancer]

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?t...2000191568

I found proof of the search manipulation.  I posted this on the stores board:

Oooh boy, am I angry.

First, I found this article by searching on Google for "eBay search algorithms". The following article is the first result on that search:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-0...ults_x.htm

Vivisimo to organize eBay search results

By Brian Bergstrom, The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Vivisimo Inc., developer of a well-regarded Internet search technology that clusters results into categories in seconds, has found another messy corner of the Web to organize: the product listings on eBay.

EBay's search engine mines the descriptions and categories that sellers attach to their wares. Vivisimo believes its search algorithm, which analyzes text in product descriptions and generates its own categories, produces more intuitive results.

For example, a query for "digital camera" on eBay yields a wide range of items, plus links to confine the search to the electronics, sports or consumer electronics category or a few subfields. The same search on Vivisimo clusters cameras by brand or functions.

Neither method is perfect. A Vivisimo search for digital cameras on eBay included a small "Star Wars" category. It turned out that someone selling action figures had written that the pictures of the toys were blurry because "I have a bad digital camera."

Still, Vivisimo offers a few other tricks in the eBay search function that it launched this week on Vivisimo.com. They include the ability for "advanced searches" that can distill products by several factors, such as price range, sellers' location and currency accepted.

Pittsburgh-based Vivisimo has no official relationship with eBay, and works through eBay's "application program interface," which lets outsiders create programs that connect to eBay listings.

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So, I wanted to know what tricks they have to offer to eBay, so I went to their website, read their "Mission" and clicked on the "see how" (http://vivisimo.com/html/solutions):

The right stuff.

None of this would matter if we didn't have the right stuff—the latest and greatest in search technology. But we do. Velocity is now one of the very few enterprise search solutions that can crawl and index all of your content (including metadata) plus federate the results from all of your search engines within existing applications. The combined search results from indexing and federating are then displayed visually in a way that makes sense to users and helps them easily find the information they need.

All of this is managed from a web-based administrative interface that gives you and your company enormous flexibility. You control what content is indexed and how it is weighted. You determine if existing search engines need to be federated. You select what types of third party feeds need to be added. You decide what content is both applicable and permitted for a given group of users—down to a within-the-document level. Last but not least, if application integration is necessary, you choose how it is done.

So there you have it. A search company that combines the innovation and simplicity of a consumer search engine interface with the power, flexibility and control that enterprises require. Intuitive, easy-to-use search solutions from a company that cares about helping you achieve real business results today, not tomorrow.

They state on their demos page:

On these pages, you can see how the:

Vivísimo Velocity
...our comprehensive and highly-customizable package that includes search, metasearch and clustering - built for rapid deployment. Try it.

Vivísimo Clustering Engine
...organizes search engine results - typically 200 results, from any of dozens of searchable repositories, including the open web. Try it.

Vivísimo Content Integrator
...sends your search query to multiple sources, removes duplicates, collates the results, and submits the integrated search results to the Clustering Engine. Try it.

http://vivisimo.com/html/demo

Now, do you understand why your sales are so low and you have so little traffic when others are enjoying boom times?

Anyone recall a certain purveyor of postcards cryptically posting on the Seller's Assistant Pro board about "Velocity?"

Lynda
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Seller since 1998
Store closed: 7/20/06
For whom the magic died.
"I don't think there's gonna be a return journey, Mr. Frodo."

[cranky_hippie]

It's good that you also posted your findings here, Lynda, because I have no doubt that your thread will vanish on the Stores Board.

Well, we knew it. 

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=cranky_hippie link=topic=4457.msg19421#msg19421 date=1154543337]
It's good that you also posted your findings here, Lynda, because I have no doubt that your thread will vanish on the Stores Board.

Well, we knew it. 
[/quote]

Nah, I don't think that they will pull it. At least not till it's off the first page. It would be too obvious. The lieworld trolls are already on it (susan2001 ) and the next one to enter the fray will be member_u63cv888
, formerly known as calpinesucks.

LIEWORLD=SCUM -THUGS

[BellisimaJ.]

brainchemicals  (Private ) View Listings | Report    Aug-02-06 14:05 PDT    24 of 24
Bite you? No way Belle. Not a thug either.

BTW, I do not reside in Texas and neither do I have any auctions going. Live right here in Los Gatos, California home of the headquarters of my employer, Liveworld.

Stop by sometime, I'll take you out for lunch. 170 Knowles Drive, Suite 211.

See ya.

Hi Brain, see you pulled the above post from the board. And yes, I know you are laughing thinking that the sheep didn't even notice your admission. And I suppose I would be laughing also if I were in your shoes.

Interesting how none of you are very good at your jobs. Probably due to the fact that Lieworld has difficulty hiring good people (considering how unethical their employees are required to be).

Another day, then.

[vitalfinds]

eBay to Close Down for 30 Days To Reevaluate Long-term Goals

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?t...2000191740&tstart=0&mod=1154571040302

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=4457.msg19437#msg19437 date=1154548588]
[quote author=cranky_hippie link=topic=4457.msg19421#msg19421 date=1154543337]
It's good that you also posted your findings here, Lynda, because I have no doubt that your thread will vanish on the Stores Board.

Well, we knew it. 
[/quote]

Nah, I don't think that they will pull it. At least not till it's off the first page. It would be too obvious. The lieworld trolls are already on it (susan2001 ) and the next one to enter the fray will be member_u63cv888 , formerly known as calpinesucks.


LIEWORLD=SCUM -THUGS


[/quote]


Update on LiveWorld paid trolls:

brainchemicals = texas-auctions = member_u63cv888  all are one and the same.

[cranky_hippie]

[quote author=vitalfinds link=topic=4457.msg19469#msg19469 date=1154571326]
eBay to Close Down for 30 Days To Reevaluate Long-term Goals

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?t...2000191740&tstart=0&mod=1154571040302
[/quote]

Well that was funny! Amazing how many didn't get it. No wonder they are so easily taken in by Ebay.

Way to go, Rich! You got 'em good. 

[Anita]

That is sooooooo mean.  Funny though!  I bumped it.   8)

I got a kick out of this post:

cahilldiva  (640 )  View Listings | Report  Aug-02-06 19:10 PDT  19 of 40 
I just did instant chat to ask them directly about this and they didn't say no! They just referred me to some Announcement board. If it's not true why don't they just say it's not true! I hope its not true, this is going to hurt a lt of people financially if it is. 

Gotta love Live Chat!  Dorks.

[BellisimaJ.]

From the SB, just now.

Sorry BELLE that You're in JAIL! Come on back and give um ...
mygift2u  (5560 ) View Listings | Report Aug-03-06 09:57 PDT
Sorry to find out you have been incarcerated. Miss ya.


Magic? Magic? Where did the Magic go?

Thank you mygift, I miss you guys too!! Keep swinging, girl!! ;D