yes it is a pity

>>spirits, that link doesn't work for me. The only pages where I don't get the "search description" box is my MY EBAY pages - The search/search results pages all have one. Maybe they've removed it from some test that I'm not one of the guinea pigs in.

Skip the link. The Javascript in eBay's insert/edit image popup is throwing up errors.

It could be that you still have the old page that everyone likes. I checked My EBay and the home page and other spots - they took the search description checkbox out completely on my account.

I tried an advanced search just a short while ago and only the first search works with the title & description. After that, the web form loses the session cookies and you have to re-enter everything (or click back to the original form and resubmit it.)

zingscoop wrote:

Nothing looks new to me but you can get to the boards by clicking on "Community" which is at the top of the home page and this one as a matter of fact.

My home page used to do that but now there is no "Community"

The new search is horrific. I placed a search for:driod battery

This is a typo, 4 sellers showed up.

I logged into this account and typed the same drIOd battery and got this:

0 results found for driod battery, and threw me into the correct spelling which shows a multitude of listings.

Well before I logged this account there was 4 of them.

I did the search once again on this id and now it shows 43 are misspelled.

This was unintentional. It is very frustrating to shop on here when you feel like you are not getting the "whole picture" of items available.

*rant over*

spirits2sell wrote:

I tried an advanced search just a short while ago and only the first search works with the title & description. After that, the web form loses the session cookies and you have to re-enter everything (or click back to the original form and resubmit it.)

I think what's going on is that you are a guinea pig for that new search  (I forget what it's called) that will completely replace best match and that will automatically include description in searches.

shudder.

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Update: It looks like eBay addressed the search and missing links.

On my pages now, the search description checkbox is back! (Remember it does not show up on the initial search unless you go right to advanced search immediately.)

And it does search title & description. Also, when you click the advanced tab, your keywords are copied as before and the title & description is still checked.

Kudos to eBay for fixing it/restoring the old search tools. Thank you

I haven't checked all the links and search options yet but I can already see that the community links are back on the top of the page.

I saw some posts about the eBay bucks - haven't checked those - maybe they've been fixed also.

Thanks again. If I find anything else remiss, I will post it here.

I am still not seeing the "include item description" box under the search bar and it's NOT automatically searching the descriptions because I get totally different numbers. 

The problem with using the advanced search is there is no way to search the sub categories anymore since ebay stopped "remembering" the subcategory you were just in.

Help!  I'm so frustrated!  I still have the box on my android tablet but I don't on my windows laptop.

I'm using I.E. 9 and I have the new format. When you open an item there is NO SEARCH BAR at the top of the page so that when you want to search again you have to go back or click on your watch page, etc.  WEIRD