Adam Trachtenberg » finding http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog Thoughts on PHP, eBay, and too many technical topics for my family's liking. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:39:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 eBay Search Results Speculation http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2008/02/01/ebay-search-results-speculation/ http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2008/02/01/ebay-search-results-speculation/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:21:28 +0000 Adam Trachtenberg http://www.trachtenberg.com/blog/2008/02/01/ebay-search-results-speculation/ One of the great things about working at eBay is reading the various speculations on the Internets about what’s going on inside the company and seeing how closely it matches up to reality.

I don’t normally comment on these discussions, but there’s a pretty good one right now that I’m enjoying on the screen shot posted under the title a “new split screen GUI” view of eBay.

According to a comment, one person thinks this is some super-secret screen capture ferreted out by someone under NDA. Scot Wingo thinks this is a “snagged screen shot” of a special test “roaming around the playground.”

As usual, the reality is far more mundane. Since the evidence is posted publicly on eBay.com, I’m happy to debunk this.

Go to the eBay investor Web site and check out the “Boston Lunch Presentation” from February 1. (This deck is identical to New York lunch presentation from the day before.) Go to slide 14 “New approach to Fixed Price and Auctions: Early prototype.”

Look familiar?

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