Ebid is in Auction Bytes blog again today

[Juliebabe25]

Hi Guys
Ina has run a great article in her blog today.
Its all about Google Product Search
Ebid gets a mention, here's the link

http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin...-18#1292181490

(I wonder why we only have 748,000 pages indexed ? when we have over 3 million listings)

[suesjools]

Julie, thanks for sharing this, will check it out.

748,000 pages for over 3 million listings sounds odd to me, too. Maybe they haven't caught up with us yet?

Happy holidays and best wishes for many sales to all,

[iwiw60]

Maybe Gazza could shed some light on this?? I'm curious, too!

[bykimbo]

I've had a bit of a looksee...

The statistics given are so poorly explained, and the article so badly written, it's difficult to be sure of anything. Aside: why do people rate the site, it's soooo badly done? hey ho... However, I'd guess that the number is taken from Google Shopping US and that, therefore, it only includes those items uploaded to google.com's shopping site (not .co.uk or any others) and that it therefore shows only a proportion of total items loaded. For example, looking at today's shopping numbers a search for ebid on .com shows "About 798,000 results (0.23 seconds) " which is close enough to the claimed number to look feasible. The .co.uk seach returns "About 866,614 results (0.10 seconds)". Though the same search a few minutes earlier showed over a million, so if this is the method they're using to estimate indexed pages it seems a tad unreliable. Since they don't appear to have given that information, I'm guessing this is their route. To check, I searched for several of the other sites the same way and each time got numbers that were consistent with those in auctionbyte's chart.

So assuming their method of guestimating (I don't think we can put it any stronger than that) the number of indexed pages per site is done that way, then what you're looking at is not the total auctions here, but a proportion of those that are a) listed from the US and b) have a buy now price given and c) are not for items considered inappropriate by Google (sex, tobacco etc). In which case it's not surprising the number isn't the same as the total listings held.

Hope that helps!

[MagnetsAndHangers]

I've had a bit of a looksee...

The statistics given are so poorly explained, and the article so badly written, it's difficult to be sure of anything. Aside: why do people rate the site, it's soooo badly done? hey ho... However, I'd guess that the number is taken from Google Shopping US and that, therefore, it only includes those items uploaded to google.com's shopping site (not .co.uk or any others) and that it therefore shows only a proportion of total items loaded. For example, looking at today's shopping numbers a search for ebid on .com shows "About 798,000 results (0.23 seconds) " which is close enough to the claimed number to look feasible. The .co.uk seach returns "About 866,614 results (0.10 seconds)". Though the same search a few minutes earlier showed over a million, so if this is the method they're using to estimate indexed pages it seems a tad unreliable. Since they don't appear to have given that information, I'm guessing this is their route. To check, I searched for several of the other sites the same way and each time got numbers that were consistent with those in auctionbyte's chart.

So assuming their method of guestimating (I don't think we can put it any stronger than that) the number of indexed pages per site is done that way, then what you're looking at is not the total auctions here, but a proportion of those that are a) listed from the US and b) have a buy now price given and c) are not for items considered inappropriate by Google (sex, tobacco etc). In which case it's not surprising the number isn't the same as the total listings held.

yes...............ummmmmm no..................ummmmmm yes.....no...........

dang what was the question?

[bykimbo]

yes...............ummmmmm no..................ummmmmm yes.....no...........

dang what was the question?

The question was "why isn't the number 3 million" and the answer is "because it shouldn't be". Does that help?

[MagnetsAndHangers]

The question was "why isn't the number 3 million" and the answer is "because it shouldn't be". Does that help?

Nah!

Do I get a spanking now?

[Juliebabe25]

@Bykimbo
You explained a very technical thing very well in great detail.

To summarise your answer

The listing on the Auction Bytes Chart only shows US ebid listings that qualify for Google Product Search.

[bykimbo]

@Bykimbo
You explained a very technical thing very well in great detail.

To summarise your answer

The listing on the Auction Bytes Chart only shows US ebid listings that qualify for Google Product Search.

Gosh, I'm getting sub-titles now!

[suesjools]

Thanks Kimbo and Julie for the explanation and summing up.

I agree, the article was poorly written. I wonder where the site gets their writers from?

Happy holidays and best wishes for many sales to all,