MitchNightshade

> "You could be causing the problem you're complaining about." Let me rephrase that for you: "A flawed search system could be causing the problem I'm complaining about." But let's not blame it on LL right away, shall we? These furniture items showed up en masse the very first time I did a search, already. As already stated in the original post, I flagged them and they disappeared from the search results. Only to reappear a few months later, which does not corroborate with your explanation. I flagged about a 100 of these products. How come that of the ±1300 search results for 'aviator sunglasses' about 675 are non-related furniture items from this one store? Also, let me refrase the core problem: "How do we prevent these irrelevant items from appearing?"

> I can't tell where your products appear in search because, well, you didn't post this using the account you used to sell the glasses. And you and no one else needs to know either. I don't want to be harrassed. > Filtering it to "avatar accessories" - "glasses" gave a remarkably clean listing. Yes, but this is not about filtering. This is about using Search and skewed Search results. This is within the first 96 search results. About 1/3rd of them is 'polluted'!

Hi all, I'm selling aviator sunglasses on Marketplace, and once in a while, I use the phrase 'aviator sunglasses', to check how my products are ranked in Marketplace Search. Time and again, a vast list of unrelated products (from a single store) keep appearing in the results list. Since the corresponding products have absolutely nothing to do with 'aviator sunglasses', it'sa blatant example of keyword spam which results in skewing the search sesults. As of this writing, there are 675 keyword spam-related hits from just this store (try for yourself in Search on the MP main page). You might suggest 'just flag the relevant products. However, this poses several problems: There are so many MP ToS-violating products listed in that store, it's discouraging for both the customer and the admin to flag and respond, respectively.I have done so. I flagegd hundreds of them (it helps a bit to let off steam). I saw some disappear from the listing, only to be replaced by by other, yet unflagged items.Lately, I see flagged and once removed products reappear in the search results list again, indicating that the store owner is simply re-listing them with the invalid keywords.Once flagged, removed and reappearing, I can't re-flag the items anymore, since the page will show 'Already Flagged'.It's hurting my and other people's businesses here. Anyone have an idea how to deal with these malpractices? Clearly, flagging is not sufficient.