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First off it looks great and works well, well done! My only suggestion would be to do some (more?) filtering on the results and specifically what images your s

by iSloth 14y ago

First off it looks great and works well, well done! My only suggestion would be to do some (more?) filtering on the results and specifically what images your showing to the end users, as you will see from the below screenshot there can be many duplicates shown depending on the search term, which reduce the user experience. http://pingbin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-2012-06-07-at-16.17.50.png http://pingbin.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Screen-Shot-20...

iamben 14y ago
Thanks for the look / comments! Yeah, it's a tough call, isn't it? Obviously the pictures back from eBay are all different URLs, because they all belong to different auction listings. I suppose one way to do it would be to filter results with the same title, price and seller - try to catch those that upload multiple listings of the same thing? Maybe I'll look into that :-) Thanks again!
- iSloth 14y ago
  Using the example that I showed there all of the images were pointing towards the same URL, assuming your application is image URL aware it should be fairly easy to only display the uniques :)
  - iamben 14y ago
    What do you know?! I should have checked that. I'm guessing (and it's pretty obvious thinking about it) eBay just reuse the link to the same images. Yeah, should be any trouble at all to sort duplicates - I'll probably aim to try and drop out listings with the same title, price and image. If the price if different you'll obviously want to click on the cheaper one, title could be size etc. Thank you, your help/ideas are really appreciated! edit: by duplicates I mean auctions similar enough to be duplicate. Obviously each one is a unique auction.
iamben 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestions earlier - have now put something in place :-) If a multiple of items are listed together if they have the same title, price, picture and listing type (ie same number of bids, BIN, etc), it's removed from the returned items. This should cut out the same stuff, but still show you what people are bidding on (or those with fewer bids). Looks a lot better on your 'triumph cub' search! Thanks again!

by iSloth 14y ago

iamben 14y ago

Thanks for the look / comments! Yeah, it's a tough call, isn't it? Obviously the pictures back from eBay are all different URLs, because they all belong to different auction listings. I suppose one way to do it would be to filter results with the same title, price and seller - try to catch those that upload multiple listings of the same thing? Maybe I'll look into that :-) Thanks again!

iSloth 14y ago
Using the example that I showed there all of the images were pointing towards the same URL, assuming your application is image URL aware it should be fairly easy to only display the uniques :)
- iamben 14y ago
  What do you know?! I should have checked that. I'm guessing (and it's pretty obvious thinking about it) eBay just reuse the link to the same images. Yeah, should be any trouble at all to sort duplicates - I'll probably aim to try and drop out listings with the same title, price and image. If the price if different you'll obviously want to click on the cheaper one, title could be size etc. Thank you, your help/ideas are really appreciated! edit: by duplicates I mean auctions similar enough to be duplicate. Obviously each one is a unique auction.

iamben 14y ago

Thanks for the suggestions earlier - have now put something in place :-) If a multiple of items are listed together if they have the same title, price, picture and listing type (ie same number of bids, BIN, etc), it's removed from the returned items. This should cut out the same stuff, but still show you what people are bidding on (or those with fewer bids). Looks a lot better on your 'triumph cub' search! Thanks again!