eBay Overhauls Site, Search - Window Shopping on the Web
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Here is the best part of getting that “wall of images.” Check out what happens when you hover over one of them:
As you can see, when you scroll over the item you get the time it ends with minutes remaining, a larger image, the title of the auction, and the current price. You can also click to read the full description and (assuming you’re logged in) add the item to your “watch” list.
It’s worth noting that the “wall of images” isn’t available for every category yet, though eBay aims to have most of the changes available to the majority of users in time for holiday shopping. I tried one of my personal favorite categories and saw a modified version of the wall of images. Basically, items with my chosen keywords showed up in two categories. Rather than show the plain wall, eBay showed four images from each category, and gave me the choice to click for more by separate category. It also didn’t offer the option of a larger view, though it did show me titles, current bid, and time to finish under each item.
Okay, ball peen hammers aren’t an especially visual search, but there are some items that you really want to be able to see the color for, such as shoes. (Stop laughing; you would have rolled your eyes if I said “beads.”). For certain items, you can now choose a color, and it’s not word-centric for the searcher anymore. Let me show you what I mean:
Remember that yellow bar to the left in the first screen shot? This is the kind of bar that shows up when you do a search for shoes – orange Nike shoes specifically, as recommended by eBay to demonstrate the new technology. As you can see, you can refine your search by choosing a product type and/or size merely by clicking. You can define a color and a price range by using the sliders.
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