Christmas sales surge knocks out eBay search

 

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By Reuters

Posted on 23 Nov 2009 at 07:36

eBay has restored a search function on its website after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results over the weekend.

The technical issue on eBay.com resulted from a surge in live listings as sellers ramped up for the Christmas season, the global site claims in a statement.

It claims to have more than 200 million live listings, a third more than at this time a year ago.

The technical issue, once identified, was easily fixed and implemented across the site's servers on Saturday afternoon and evening, eBay claims.