Chapter 3. Browsing and Searching for Merchandise

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Browsing or Searching—Which One Is for You?

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Browsing: The Easy (?) Way to Find Things

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Searching: The Powerful Way to Find Things

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Let’s get right down to it: eBay is the largest online shopping site on the Web, no questions asked. It’s big. It’s bigger than big. It’s, like, really incredibly massively big. Think of the biggest thing you’ve ever seen, and eBay is bigger than that.

If you want to browse through the largest selection of merchandise for sale on the Internet, this is definitely the place to go.

However, eBay’s size (it’s big, remember?) sometimes makes ...

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