Search Improvements : Brand names, abbreviations, misspellings

[sucadot]

st - street

thanks

[tony41]

st - street

thanks

Or saint!

[cambrensis]

Or saint!

Yes! I can remember being very confused as a child making the transition from Welsh to English and seeing destination boards on Cardiff trams reading "St Mary St"...

[bluebedouin]

Just searched for cycle mudguards which returned no items.Refining that search to bicycle mudguards returned,
"vintage cibie front lamp light lantern spotlight bike bicycle mudguard fender".
As can be seen,my search term was within that title but not picked up.

[EmpHolisticGifts]

Have you had the chance to do numbers?

http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...-3rd-4-4th-etc

Christmas, I see xmas what about cmas...

[Gill]

Have you had the chance to do numbers?

http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...-3rd-4-4th-etc

Christmas, I see xmas what about cmas...

Do you know of anyone that searches for cmas?

[Maelbrigda]

also wicca and wiccan.
magical, magickal & magikal.
and (and) &.
Beltain & beltane

[bluebedouin]

A search from France for "cup and saucer" throws up 287 auctions but "cup & saucer" throws up 914 auctions. "Needle and thread" finds 3 and "needle & thread" finds 17.

I have no idea why this is .... but thought I'd mention it

and &

Both of the above quotes are from 2011.Three years on & this problem is still arising.See post above too.
Following on from Craig's thread about the missing listing I did a search in the music section for Jan & Dean/Jan and Dean.The former resulted in 21 listings,the latter in 10.
Surely the most basic of searches should pick up both of these keywords & recognise as one.

[astral276]

Three years on & this problem is still arising.

Nothing new in that. There are many problems that have existed a lot longer that never get addressed.

[gazza]

Just searched for cycle mudguards which returned no items.Refining that search to bicycle mudguards returned,
"vintage cibie front lamp light lantern spotlight bike bicycle mudguard fender".
As can be seen,my search term was within that title but not picked up.

Added bike/cycle/bicycle matrix