Hi everyone,


I’m Nico Posner with eBay’s Finding team. As you’ve seen and heard from us over the past few months, we’re working on a number of projects that drive new buyers to the site, and that ensure that -- when they get here -- they have the best shopping experience possible. An important project we’ll be launching as a test later this month is a new search results page. The new design shows more information for each listing than our current pages. We’ve also improved the look-and-feel to help buyers be more efficient as they make decisions about which listings they want to click into.


About The New Search Results Design

In our new search results pages, the space allotted to each listing will be bigger, and we’ll be doing more to call out key information. For example, price information will be shown in a larger size and a new color, making it easier to scan through listings. We’re also including an “Add to Watch list” link on each item, so buyers can add interesting listings to their Watch lists right away.





Most listing rows will also have a link called “See quick details.” When a buyer clicks this link, or hovers over it with their mouse, they’ll see a new section pop up that contains key information such as the shipping & handling charges and accepted payment methods.





And just as they can today, buyers will be able to customize what information they see on these pages according to what is most important to them, by clicking on the “Customize display” link at the top of the item list, making modifications as desired, and then clicking on the “Apply changes” button.





Our Test Plan


Later this month, a small percentage of buyers (selected at random) will start seeing the new search results pages. An even smaller number of buyers will also see the new design on eBay Motors.


We will keep you informed about plans to launch this new design to the whole site after we complete our testing period.


If you’d like to see what the new design looks like, please see our information page. Please provide your feedback, questions or issues regarding the new search results page by posting your comments to this thread. We will be reviewing and responding to your comments and questions on this discussion thread periodically throughout this test phase. I will post a link to a Community Workshop that we will be hosting on August 24th from 12noon - 1pm PT to gather your feedback.


Thank you in advance to for your help and support during this test! We hope you find the changes we have made both fun and helpful in improving your finding experience.


Sincerely,


Nico Posner

Senior Product Manager, Finding



Question 1: I don’t see the new search results design but I would like to. Is there a way for me to opt in?

Answer: A small percentage of users are selected at random who will see the new design and functionality. There is no way to request to be in a test group.


Question 2: I used to click on the links at the top of a column to sort the information. What do I do now?

Answer: All available sort controls can be found in the Sort by dropdown control at the top of the item list on the right. Sorted information displayed in the center of each item will be highlighted to help you scan through the item list more effectively.