Ed Price
Member
Lately, searching eBay for "Amphicar" has become really difficult, because I
keep getting so many non-Amphicar results. For instance, just now I did my
normal search, and got 1,496 hits. Trouble is, almost all of these hits are
NOT Amphi related. I really think there's now Amphi market for shaved door
handles and spring-loaded "door poppers."
One vendor consistently shows up; "autopartshaus". Here's an example of one
of his auctions that results from an "Amphicar" search; a keyless entry
system for a Ford Crown Vic: 400071901340.
Of course, "Amphicar" doesn't show up in the visible text of his auctions,
but, if you view his source code, this is the offending text:
href="http://desc.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=amphicar&LH_TitleDesc=1&
_armrs=1&_dmd=1&_from=R14&_ipg=100&_sop=10#item5d2624c09c">
This shows up about 3 times in his source code, so a search by the eBay
engine thinks this auction has something to do with Amphicars.
I have emailed the vendor when this first began, and he assured me that he
was not Keyword Spamming. When I sent him a copy of his source code, he said
that the entries must be "an artifact of the eBay search engine."
I use Win XP with IE8. Question is, does anyone else have this vendor
polluting their search results?
Ed Price
El Cajon, CA USA
WB6WSN
1961 Amphicar
1987 MB 420SEL
keep getting so many non-Amphicar results. For instance, just now I did my
normal search, and got 1,496 hits. Trouble is, almost all of these hits are
NOT Amphi related. I really think there's now Amphi market for shaved door
handles and spring-loaded "door poppers."
One vendor consistently shows up; "autopartshaus". Here's an example of one
of his auctions that results from an "Amphicar" search; a keyless entry
system for a Ford Crown Vic: 400071901340.
Of course, "Amphicar" doesn't show up in the visible text of his auctions,
but, if you view his source code, this is the offending text:
href="http://desc.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=amphicar&LH_TitleDesc=1&
_armrs=1&_dmd=1&_from=R14&_ipg=100&_sop=10#item5d2624c09c">
This shows up about 3 times in his source code, so a search by the eBay
engine thinks this auction has something to do with Amphicars.
I have emailed the vendor when this first began, and he assured me that he
was not Keyword Spamming. When I sent him a copy of his source code, he said
that the entries must be "an artifact of the eBay search engine."
I use Win XP with IE8. Question is, does anyone else have this vendor
polluting their search results?
Ed Price
El Cajon, CA USA
WB6WSN
1961 Amphicar
1987 MB 420SEL