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Search Queries
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eBay has a search query limit of 350 characters.
Additionally, the maximum length for a single "word" is 98
characters and the minimum length is 2.
What eBay sees as a word is not obvious and many
searchers have been affected by this change. They treat
any run of characters that doesn't contain a space as a
word, and the commonly-used comma-separated word lists are
treated as a single word if there are no spaces present. So for example
(thanks to Elmar D.) there are problems with this query:
nintendo
(egg,ball,ballon,baloon,flagman,helmet,judge,juggler,lion,manhole,vermin,bombs,circus,mickey,popeye,snoopy)
-(watch,super,rock,dragon,country,snes,ds,nes,classics,64,figure,boy,gameboy,doll,mini,card,land,tshirt)
eBay will ignore the two comma-separated word lists
because there are no spaces and they each exceed the 98-character limit.
eBay will fail silently and
you'll get an unexpectedly large number of results.
To deal with this in the example above, two spaces
can be inserted, one in each word list, to break up each
of the word lists so that no single run of non-space
characters exceeds the
98-character limit.
We found several online tools that can help with
letter counting including:
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