Hi bill2cu,
EatSum displays lists to search engines such as Google and Yahoo! and
to people who enter EatSum URLs in their browser's address bar.
However, it presents pages that redirect to eBay (via a few other
URLs) for users who click on EatSum search engine results.
You might try a search on Google or Yahoo! for: site:eatsum.com.
Click on a couple of results to see the eBay redirects. Then enter
those same results into your browser's address bar, to see the EatSum
pages. (You can also click the "cached" link on the search engine
results to see the EatSum pages.)
EatSum's apparent purpose is to have people click on Google, Yahoo!,
and other search engine results, so that it can collect commissions
with respect to users who proceed to purchase products at eBay. I
believe that EatSum presents the type of static page that you saw --
one that doesn't redirect to eBay -- so that search engines will see
and index those pages. Presumably EatSum doesn't want the search
engine to see results that go right to eBay. (The search engine
itself does not buy products on eBay.) Rather, it apparently wants
the search engines to index EatSum's pages, in order to attract search
engine users who can be forwarded to buy items on eBay.
Of course, EatSum could have set up its site so that it doesn't
automatically redirect search engine users to eBay, but instead
redirects them only after they click on an item (like the used airless
sprayer). I suppose EatSum decided that it was most profitable to
redirect search engine users immediately, rather than have them visit
EatSum and click.
If you want to find the used airless sprayer or other item more
directly, you can search for it on eBay. If you'd prefer to use
EatSum, you can search on Google or Yahoo! for something like:
site:eatsum.com airless sprayer. Then you can click on a result or
its "cache," or enter its URL in your browser's address bar (depending
on whether you want to go to eBay, the cached EatSum page, or the
current EatSum page).
Please let me know if this explanation is unclear, so that I can
clarify it. I hope that this information is helpful.
- justaskscott |
Request for Answer Clarification by
bill2cu-ga
on
17 Apr 2005 11:42 PDT
Hi Scott, Thanks for the info. The only thing I don't understand is
that when I brought up a search item from eatsum, (ie the airless
sprayer) there was nothing more I could do with it. It was only a
line listing with a price and there were no links either on the line
or anywhere on the listing page. So I can't find where the item links
to. After your suggestion I did go back to ebay and attempt to find
the same item with that price, but did not. That may be because the
search engine sweep of eatsum was older than ebay's up-to-the- minute
listings. I'll just stick with ebay I think, but it is frustrating to
have something listed that one thinks might be available, and then not
be able to access it in any way. -- If I am doing something amiss with
my above searches, let me know otherwise, Thanks . . . Bill
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