foodconsumer.org: Search dysfunction noticed on eBay site

Search dysfunction noticed on eBay site
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admin on 11/22/2009 03:32:00
 
By David Liu
The online auction giant eBay Inc suffered some computing problems on Saturday
which caused erroneous search results, Wall Street Journal reported.
The search glitches were noticed Saturday morning. The company posted notes
several times addressing the technical issues.
Ebay posted a note at 11:17 am pacific time, WSJ reported, saying that "we are
experiencing some issues with a delay in search being displayed."
With the search problem unsolved, the company stated in a subsequent note that
the search system was still having difficulty due to errors in some back-end
systems.
Later afternoon, when shoppers did searches using keywords like iPod on eBay's
U.S. site, the auction site simply gave up by saying "we were unable to run the
search you entered, please try again in a few minutes.
An eBay spokesman was cited as saying the company will have the search
dysfunction corrected and restored to a full capacity by Sunday.